After some further, rather ugly, investigation it turned out that the original files (we found three of them!) had been corrupted by Windows. A fact I'm going to but in my growing pile of arguments for switching to a real operating system, at least for our servers. With that out of the way, rsync performed flawlessly.
/Greger
Wayne Davison wrote:
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:09:28PM +0200, Greger Cronquist wrote:
I've tried calling rsync with several different options, most notably -c for forcing checksum, but it fails to see a difference between the files.
If -c failed to notice that the files are different, then either (1) the MD4 checksums accidentally match (rare, but not impossible), or (2) your double-check accidentally compared the wrong files.
One way to force a resend is to touch the source file and then use --whole-file to ensure that you get a complete re-copy without any accidental block matches.
..wayne..
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