Re: fixing user, group, and mtime with rsync?

2008-09-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 10:02 +0200, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:21:37 -0400, matt wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 14:05 +0200, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: I prepared a mirror (that is intended to be updated by rsync) by doing the initial copy using cpio (for efficiency on 15 million

Re: fixing user, group, and mtime with rsync?

2008-09-16 Thread Sven Hartrumpf
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:35:40 +, matt wrote: Rsync will preserve symlink mtimes using the lutimes system call if the C library and kernel on the receiving machine both support it. Check that rsync --version shows symtimes, not no symtimes. If the kernel is Linux, it should be 2.6.22 or newer