Re: Timestanp question

2007-03-30 Thread William D. Tallman
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:02:18PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:18:39PM -0700, William D. Tallman wrote: > > My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has > > the first rsync backup run put time stamps on all files? > > You can drop the --size-o

Re: rsync patch -flags fails to compile on Mac OSX

2007-03-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:44:11AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, after defining the missing flags in rsync.h I still get the > following errors: There were a bunch of old code idioms in that patch due to my inability to compile file-flags on my systems. I kluged something together

Re: exclude based on UID/GID?

2007-03-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:19:58PM -0700, Barry Robison wrote: > However this runs the risk of any files created locally during the > length of the first rsync being deleted. For a two-way sync, the "unison" tool is usually a better solution. Or, adding a saved list a files with rsync lets the to

Re: Timestanp question

2007-03-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:18:39PM -0700, William D. Tallman wrote: > My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has > the first rsync backup run put time stamps on all files? You can drop the --size-only option after that first use with the -t option, because rsync will ha

Re: Timestanp question

2007-03-30 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 3/30/07, William D. Tallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've now got scripts that correctly backup all my primary partitions to a second drive. The original problem was that I copied them over without a time stamp, so that the first rsync run found no timestamps and wanted to copy them all ove

Timestanp question

2007-03-30 Thread William D. Tallman
I've now got scripts that correctly backup all my primary partitions to a second drive. The original problem was that I copied them over without a time stamp, so that the first rsync run found no timestamps and wanted to copy them all over again. So I used: 'rsync -r -t -v --size-only $