mtime not updating on remote directory

2015-05-18 Thread tomr
Hello,

I'm using rsync as part of a centralised config management for several servers. 
 I'm trying to monitor the mtime of a particular directory and confirm that the 
remote copies are approximately as new as the the local master.  However, mtime 
on that directory is not being synced.  Here's my rsync command:

cd $confdir  rsync -avpzR --checksum -I -e ssh --exclude='old/' ./* 
user@remotehost:/

My impression is that this should sync mtime to the remote dir, if that mtime 
has changed locally.  However that's not happening.  It doesn't seem to me that 
any of my options implies --omit-dir-times, but maybe I'm missing something - 
Any clues?

Thanks in advance!
tom
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Re: mtime not updating on remote directory

2015-05-18 Thread Kevin Korb
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Seems to work when I tried it.  Is the directory listed when you run
it?  What does --itemize-changes say?

My first guess is that it would be an interaction between --checksum
and --ignore-times which are fairly opposite functions and --checksum
is usually the wrong thing to use.

Also btw, you don't need -p -R or -e ssh.

Also, use ./ instead of ./*  This wouldn't affect your current command
but it would if you were using --delete so I consider it a bad habit.

On 05/18/2015 08:36 AM, tomr wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm using rsync as part of a centralised config management for
 several servers.  I'm trying to monitor the mtime of a particular
 directory and confirm that the remote copies are approximately as
 new as the the local master.  However, mtime on that directory is
 not being synced.  Here's my rsync command:
 
 cd $confdir  rsync -avpzR --checksum -I -e ssh --exclude='old/'
 ./* user@remotehost:/
 
 My impression is that this should sync mtime to the remote dir, if
 that mtime has changed locally.  However that's not happening.  It
 doesn't seem to me that any of my options implies --omit-dir-times,
 but maybe I'm missing something - Any clues?
 
 Thanks in advance! tom
 

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