Hi Perry, The issue I¹m having is not writing to the LTO tape - rsync does that ok, but we have just switch over to gcp followed by rsync as a double-check. It has certainly helped with our LTO writing.
The problem I¹m having with the files continually re-writing is for a local transfer from external HDD to internal HDD, both HFS+ Thanks, Blake On 6/3/16, 4:14 AM, "Perry Hutchison" <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote: >"McDowell, Blake" <mcdowe...@si.edu> wrote: > >> The storage is just an regular HDD in a mac pro tower. I can't >> imagine why it wouldn't handle timestamps. Also of note - this >> problem doesn't exist for every file, just the vast majority. >> So, that just makes it more confusing. > >The filesystem format (MacOS native? FAT?) might be a factor. > >> Yes, I imagine rsync is not the best for linear tape but give the >> choice between cp (which is faster and causes less problems but >> offers almost zero verbosity) and rsync, I???ll choose rsync. If >> people know of other options, I???d be very happy to know of them. > >Best choice for magtape is probably something like tar, cpio, or pax >(for a file-oriented backup), or the appropriate variant of dump(8) >(to back up an entire filesystem -- but not all FS formats have a >dump/restore suite available). -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
