On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:29:45PM -0800, William D. Tallman wrote: > > And I got it that I could remove -t and --size-only from subsequent > > backup runs. > > No, you don't want to eliminate -t, as preserving timestamps is the only > way rsync has to quickly decide if a file is changed or not (if you had > used -p with the initial cp command, you couldn't have needed to use > --size-only). I'd also suggest adding -p (--perms), if needed. See > also -g (--group) and -o (--owner), which might be needed.
I didn't use any switches with 'cp', and doubtless should have. But this should set things straight, I gather. And I wonder about keeping the -t, which is why I mentioned it. Good call! Now, I hadn't thought of the permissions; I'm doing all this as root, of course, and hadn't even considered them. I see that root now owns all of my $HOME files, which isn't really a problem now, but if I ever have to swap drives for any reason, I'll have a lot of house-cleaning to do. If I now use -p, -o, and -g, will that resolve this problem? > > And what I don't seem to be able to figure out is how to get rsync to > > give me a list of the files it updates or backs up. I thought a single > > -v would do that, but apparently not. > > Yes, that's what happens. Perhaps you left off -t from one copy, and > noticed that rsync re-copied the older files (due to them not having > their timestamp preserved). You can use -i (--itemize-changes) to see > an itemized list of what rsync is changing, and what caused a transfer > to happen. Aha. I will pipe all that to a log file, as I want to run this all as a chron job and will want that information available. Does -i cover all the info in --stats, or should I run both? Thanks for your response and I will almost certainly have more questions. Best, Bill Tallman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
