Hi again. I just spotted another peculiarity when inspecting the rsync log. When using --compare-dest, source files that have permissions that differ from the "comparables" are not logged, unless you're using -i.
Here's a testing session: $ ls -lR .: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 vidar users 4096 2005-03-31 14:16 cmp/ drwxr-xr-x 2 vidar users 4096 2005-03-31 14:23 dst/ drwxr-xr-x 2 vidar users 4096 2005-03-31 14:16 src/ ./cmp: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vidar users 17 2005-03-31 14:16 slackware-version* ./dst: total 0 ./src: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 vidar users 17 2005-03-31 14:16 slackware-version Note the permissions; the cmp file has been chmodded a+x. $ rsync -av --compare-dest="../cmp" src/ dst/ building file list ... done ./ sent 115 bytes received 32 bytes 294.00 bytes/sec total size is 17 speedup is 0.12 $ ls -l dst total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 vidar users 17 2005-03-31 14:16 slackware-version So the file was copied despite not being listed $ rm dst/slackware-version $ rsync -avi --compare-dest="../cmp" src/ dst/ building file list ... done .d..t.... ./ .f...p... slackware-version sent 115 bytes received 32 bytes 294.00 bytes/sec total size is 17 speedup is 0.12 $ The same behaviour can be seen when using --log-format instead of -v; if there's an "%i" present, everything is logged correctly, but without, files with different permissions are silently left out. Vidar -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html