Hello, no, I do *not* want to transfer ADS with rsync, that would be an FAQ ;-)
But I have setup rsyncd on a windows host using cygwin. This machine hosts files with ADS which are created by Antivirus software and change frequently. I do not need to save these ADS, but somehow they seem to lead rsync to believe the file has changed and transfer it again. Since we are doing multi-generation backups with rsync and hard links (using the --link-dest option), this greatly increases space requirements. I compared old and new files, and they are exactly identical in size, name, path, permissions (as UNIX/cygwin sees them), they have the same md5sum. I have not yet tried running rsync with the checksum option, but since we are backing up > 200.000 files, that would likely take much too long. Do you have any ideas how to change this behaviour? Thanks, Andreas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
