Re: Rsync and windows

[Lapo Luchini]

Oliver Krehan wrote:

Hi there,

I have a problem syncronizing a windows machine with a linux box.
I want to backup the "My Documents" folder. Therefore I burned the data
on a cdrom because the windows pc is only connected over a slow wan
connection to the linux box. When I copy the data to the users home
directory (using samba and another windows pc) and run the rsync program
all the files are copied once more. I made some tests and changed the
ownership and the also the file permissions for the copied data on the
linux box but still rsync wants to transfer all the data, even if they
look exactly the same after the transfer. If I use rsync to copy the
data for the first time everything works fine.

I guess the problem is that the date on the linux box is newer... the following options *may* help you:

--size-only
Normally rsync will skip any files that are already the same
length and have the same time-stamp. With the --size-only option
files will be skipped if they have the same size, regardless of
timestamp. This is useful when starting to use rsync after using
another mirroring system which may not preserve timestamps
exactly.
-I, --ignore-times don't exclude files that match length and time

On the windows machine (Win2000 SP3) I run rsync 2.5.1 protocol version
25 in a cygwin environement.

I would suggest you toupdate your environment too: current rsync release on cygwin is 2.5.5

reasons over a ssh tunnel.

also openssh was updated much.

You can of course use http://cgywin.com/setup.exe to easily update it all.

Is there a simple way to burn windows data on a cdrom, then to the right
directory on the linux machine and run rsync without transfering the
whole data once again ?

You can always create a .tar.bz2 to better preserve date and permissions... but I would first try with what I said before in this message.

best regards,
Lapo

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