Re: ignore mtime - or any metadata

2022-09-25 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
I can't say I have tried it but -pog would all also result in duplicating files (assuming they are different). On 9/25/22 14:49, Hardy via rsync wrote: Thanks Kevin, -a implies rlptgoD and I obviously used it by comfort and habit. Omitting -t (and perhaps also gop, not really needed) might

Re: ignore mtime - or any metadata

2022-09-25 Thread Hardy via rsync
Thanks Kevin, -a implies rlptgoD and I obviously used it by comfort and habit. Omitting -t (and perhaps also gop, not really needed) might solve my problem? Will give it a try. Am 25.09.22 um 20:30 schrob Kevin Korb via rsync: -a is telling rsync to copy the metadata.  --size-only is telling

Re: ignore mtime - or any metadata

2022-09-25 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
-a is telling rsync to copy the metadata. --size-only is telling rsync to skip the contents of files that are the same time. Without --link-dest rsync would just update the metadata on the target. However, with --link-dest rsync is being told to make the same file with 2 different metadatas.

ignore mtime - or any metadata

2022-09-25 Thread Hardy via rsync
Hi, SHORT: rsync shall ignore differences in meta (inode) data, but does not even with --size-only. -- If in combination with --link-dest. Is there any flag I missed? EXPLANATION: I use rsync -avbuH --size-only --stats --delete-excluded --link-dest=/path/to/last "user@system:Shared/Data"