I have a directory dumps on my laptop containing several dumps of various levels.
local-0-2007-03-03.gz local-4-2007-02-12.gz local-4-2007-02-19.gz local-4-2007-02-26.gz local-4-2007-03-05.gz local-5-2007-03-04.gz local-5-2007-03-06.gz local-5-2007-03-07.gz local-5-2007-03-08.gz Naturally the level-0 is the largest and rarely changes. On the target (access.cims.nyu.edu) I have a directory /scratch4/gottlieb/dumps rsync (with --checksum and other options) worked great to push the dumps to access prior to my including a level 0 dump, at which point I exceeded the space available on /scratch4 So I moved the level-0 (on the target only) to /scratch3/gottlieb/dumps and added cmpare-dest=/scratch3/gottlieb to my rsync command as shown below. This may indeed be working correctly, but I noticed that no matter how many -v I use (I tried up to 4) I could not get a confirmation that local-0 was found to agree with the copy on the target, even though I use --checksum. I do see several messages concerning level-0 but not the desired dumps/local-0-2007-03-03.gz is uptodate thanks in advance for any information and a large thanks for rsync. allan rsync --delete --archive --partial --progress --compare-dest=/scratch3/gottlieb --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --checksum -v -v -v -v /mnt/hdc7/dumps access.cims.nyu.edu:/scratch4/gottlieb -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html