On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:04 +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > On Friday 11 December 2009 03:43:30 you wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 01:25 +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > > I don't know what I'm doing bad, but --link-dest does not work for me: > [...] > > > > Pass -i to find out why rsync didn't use the file from copy1. There > > might be a difference in the seconds part of the mtime, which would not > > show up in the "ls" output. > > > > $ rsync -avi --link-dest=$PWD/copy1 origin/ copy2 > sending incremental file list > .d..t...... ./ > >f..t...... kk > > sent 104 bytes received 35 bytes 278.00 bytes/sec > total size is 3 speedup is 0.02 > > I do not understand that output
The output format of -i is described in the man page. The "t" indicates that copy1/kk differs from origin/kk in modification time, which disqualifies it from being linked since you asked rsync to preserve modification time as part of -a. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
