Hi, I found this surprising behavior with rsync (version 2.5.7 protocol version 26) on Mac OS X (Panther, 10.3.2) :
Suppose you have a folder "Source" containing a file named "abc", and its backup as folder "Clone", created by rsync : rsync -a ~/Desktop/Source/ ~/Desktop/Clone Now change the name of file "abc" into "ABC" and re-sync : rsync -av ~/Desktop/Source/ ~/Desktop/Clone >building file list ... done >wrote 141 bytes read 20 bytes 107.33 bytes/sec >total size is 6148 speedup is 38.19 Not good : the change has not been done ! And suppose you do this: rsync -av --delete-after ~/Desktop/Source/ ~/Desktop/Clone >building file list ... done >deleting a file named abc >wrote 145 bytes read 20 bytes 330.00 bytes/sec >total size is 6148 speedup is 37.26 Much worse, the file is not preserved in the backup. There is a workaround though : rsync -av --delete ~/Desktop/Source/ ~/Desktop/Clone >building file list ... done >deleting a file named abc >./ >a file named ABC >wrote 181 bytes read 36 bytes 434.00 bytes/sec >total size is 6148 speedup is 28.33 However, the behavior is inconsistent and can result in incomplete copies or backups. Alain Content, Brussels -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
