Re: Rsync - does it really do an *exact* copy?

2006-05-31 Thread tyko brown
> I don't think I would have had this problem if the man page was correct. > With the FC5 distro, the man page for rsync doesn't match the version > (which is 2.6.6). That is, if I 'man rsync' there is no information at > all in regards to the -X (--xattrs) option. Did you report this as a bug so

rsync eating bandwidth without doing anything

2006-05-24 Thread tyko brown
rsync fails to make a directory at the remote site, but continues anyway. $ rsync -av local 10.1.1.1:/somewhere/ building file list ... done rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "local": Permission denied (2) stat local : No such file or directory You can do this locally too - rsync to a usb device, then

Re: ignoring file times - but still examining content

2006-05-23 Thread tyko brown
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:09:39 +0200 > To: rsync@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: ignoring file times - but still examining content > > On Tue 23 May 2006, tyko brown wrote: > >> I'd like to ignore t

ignoring file times - but still examining content

2006-05-23 Thread tyko brown
Hello. I would like to transfer files which have changed on another box. The rsync man page says: --size-only ..This is useful when starting to use rsync after using another mirroring system which may not preserve timestamps exactly.. Which is my situation. My problem is that the size-only swi