Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 05.01.2010 05:36, grarpamp wrote: > > > That option can be easily missed it's: --size-only > > > > That seems like at least part of what would be useful :) > > Certainly it covers the most common case of modtimes. > > > > However, it doesn't seem to work :( > > > > cp -p /etc/passwd a > > cp -p /etc/passwd b > > > > ls -liT a b > > 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 1706 Dec 25 03:08:02 2009 a > > 6 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 1706 Dec 25 03:08:02 2009 b > > > > touch a > > > > ls -liT a b > > 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 1706 Jan 5 05:24:17 2010 a > > 6 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 1706 Dec 25 03:08:02 2009 b > > > > rsync -Haxi --delete --size-only ./a ./b > > .f..t...... a > > > > ls -liT a b > > 5 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 1706 Jan 5 05:24:17 2010 a > > 6 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 1706 Jan 5 05:24:17 2010 b > > rsync always updates the meta-data, even for files that it doesn't > transfer. > > See: > chmod 777 a > rsync -Haxi --delete --size-only ./a ./b > > > AFAICT from the man-page there is nothing you can do about that without > other drawbacks like don't synchronizing the mtime at all. > (See the replacement-list of options for "-a" and skip "-t") >
You might get the desired effect with riciculously large values of --modify-window -- 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
