On Sep 23 13:34, Andreas Heinlein wrote: > 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?
Look for the rsync --size-only option. Probably the Antivirus stuff changes the modification date, which is usually used by rsync for a quick decision what has changed. Alternatively use another Antivirus software which does not modify the files on disk. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
