Re: Failure to update differing file

2002-05-04 Thread Michael Fischer
>On Sat, 4 May 2002, Michael Fischer wrote: >> 1. If I touched only the corrupted file, so the file times differed, >> then rsync did update the destination file. >> >> 2. If I used the --checksum flag, then it updated correctly. >> >> But just a plain rsync failed to notice that the fil

Re: Failure to update differing file

2002-05-04 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Michael Fischer wrote: > 1. If I touched only the corrupted file, so the file times differed, > then rsync did update the destination file. > > 2. If I used the --checksum flag, then it updated correctly. > > But just a plain rsync failed to notice that the files were d

Failure to update differing file

2002-05-04 Thread Michael Fischer
I have two large files (2+MB), one of which is a corrupted version of the other. I tried to rsync the good file to the corrupted one, hoping it would repair the few bad bytes, but it did nothing. (I tried to be careful not to specify the --archive or --update flags, either explicitly or implicit