On 12/07/2014 3:49 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 07/11/2014 10:44 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 12/07/2014 3:24 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> On 07/11/2014 01:49 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Try giving the "--size-only" option to rsync. >>>> >>>> Better yet, try "--modify-window=1". From the rsync man page: >>>> >>>> --modify-window >>>> When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats the >>>> timestamps as >>>> being equal if they differ by no more than the >>>> modify-window >>>> value. This is normally 0 (for an exact match), >>>> but you may >>>> find it useful to set this to a larger value in some >>>> situations. >>>> In particular, when transferring to or from an MS >>>> Windows FAT >>>> filesystem (which represents times with a 2-second >>>> resolution), >>>> --modify-window=1 is useful (allowing times to differ >>>> by up to 1 >>>> second). >>>> >>>> >>>> - Pat >>>> >>> >>> Hi Pat, >>> >>> --modify-window=1 >>> 3 hr - 9 sec >>> >>> --modify-window=10 >>> 3 hr - 8 sec >>> >>> Rat! I really though this sounded right >>> >>> >>> I did notice that the bugger the file (with no changes) >>> the longer it took. So, I think they are still doing >>> check sums. >>> >>> Any way to turn of the check sum testing? >> >> Now you're starting to get off task... How can you sync something if you >> don't know if it matches? Sure, you can only go off timestamps > > How would I do size and time stamp? > > Virtually everything I modify will either be a different size > and/or get a new time stamp. I can not think of a reason > why, in this instance, I'd need to do a check sum.
Then you don't want to use rsync - as you're not syncing. rsync will
also checksum data AFTER copying to verify the copy was successful.
If you don't care about the rest, try the normal cp:
cp -apu /path/to/source /path/to/destination
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