rsync copying over existing files

Hi again all.. When using rsync 3.0 to sync files between 2 local directories, it works as i expect it, but when the destination folder is a mounted smb share, it always copies over the files even though they already exist on the destination. Any ideas on why this is happening? even using the sam

Re: How to specify "--link-dest" on server (rsyncd.conf)?

Thank you for your response. Currently backups are implemented via rsync and I don't want to add rsnapshot to the mix and have to reconfigure everything on the clients and server. Moreover from what I've read rsnapshot seems very similar from what I've already implemented and I believe suffers th

Re: How to specify "--link-dest" on server (rsyncd.conf)?

I didn't read all of your post, to be honest, so forgive me if this does not help, but are you aware of rsnapshot ? It is very nice for snapshots and uses rsync 'behind the scenes'. Search the list archives for info on this. In particular, this post

Re: How to specify "--link-dest" on server (rsyncd.conf)?

Hmm... I didn't get any response to my post... did I send my question to the wrong list? Is there a more appropriate way to contact the rsync developers? Did I miss some feature in the documentation that does this? Are the developers simply too busy / not interested in responding to this issue? Pl

Re: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes

tats --timeout=360 --progress > --log-file=/Volumes/backup/20080429/rsynclog.txt > --exclude="*:*" /Volumes/RAID_One /Volumes/backup/20080429 > > There's a few terabytes of data, and it never finishes a complete run. > > It can stop at anywhere during the tran