does rsync not preserve directory mtimes?

Hi, I'm running the following command as a local copy command. faheem@bulldog:/mnt/data$ sudo rsync -abvz --super /data/ . Origin directory faheem@bulldog:/data$ ls -la total 28 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 26 08:34 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 13 17:09 ..

Re: does rsync not preserve directory mtimes?

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Matt McCutchen wrote: From the man page: -b, --backup [...] Note that if you don’t specify --backup-dir, (1) the --omit-dir-times option will be implied, [...] Thanks for the fast explanation. I was using this flag out of force of habit.

is there a way to make rsync include/exclude options case insensitive?

Dear People, A friend asks * For the rsync include/exclude options is there a way to make it case insensitive? What I mean is that --exclude *.pdf would exclude *.PdF and *.pdF as well. I am looking for something like the -i switch

rsync logging and permission problems

as root on the remote machine. In any case, I tried to do so and could not, perhaps because Debian does not allow remote logins as root by default. Please cc any reply to me; I'm not on the mailing list. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.