On 30-Nov-00 at 17:02:19 John Horne wrote:
> Using rsync 2.4.6 I executed the following (simply as a test) from one
> machine to another:
>
> rsync -v -e ssh -ar sscan eros:
>
> This copied the sscan directory from my PC to the machine 'eros'. I then
> changed a file in sscan locally and ran the command again. The changed
> file
> was copied. I changed the file again, and then executed:
>
> rsync -v -e ssh -ar --size-only sscan eros:
>
> The file was not copied because its size was the same. no problem.
>
> However, I then ran the first command again and the file still was not
> copied. Surely it should have been since the file has changed in its
> contents? I now have the two files out of sync. The output from rsync
> simply shows:
>
Okay I think I've solved this :-) The rsync with the '--size-only' option
updates the modification time for the file but doesn't copy it. Hence when I
run the command without that option the size and time are equal - hence the
file is not copied despite being different. I see that there are options to
ignore the time as well, so that would get round it on the second rsync
command. Not a problem, I just found it a bit confusing :-)
John.
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