Re: Settings file times only

2012-04-11 Thread James Moe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/2012 02:08 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: > "Skipping directory ." because you didn't tell it to run > recursively. I was suggesting options to add to a normal rsync not > the only options to use. You would still need either --recursive > or --archiv

Re: Settings file times only

2012-04-11 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 11.04.2012 11:14, James Moe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > I restored a filesystem by using rsync to copy directories and files > from a backup volume to the newly recreated volume. All of the > re-created files were given the current date and time rathe

Re: Settings file times only

2012-04-11 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Skipping directory ." because you didn't tell it to run recursively. I was suggesting options to add to a normal rsync not the only options to use. You would still need either --recursive or --archive if you are trying to rsync a directory. On 04/1

Re: Settings file times only

2012-04-11 Thread James Moe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/2012 01:53 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: > It shouldn't care which way the time stamps are off. --times > (which is part of --archive) will tell rsync to correct the time > stamps and --size-only tells rsync to assume that files of the same > size ar

Re: Settings file times only

2012-04-11 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --times --size-only --itemize-changes check it out first with --dry-run On 04/11/12 14:14, James Moe wrote: > Hello, I restored a filesystem by using rsync to copy directories > and files from a backup volume to the newly recreated volume. All > of

Settings file times only

2012-04-11 Thread James Moe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I restored a filesystem by using rsync to copy directories and files from a backup volume to the newly recreated volume. All of the re-created files were given the current date and time rather than the original file's timestamp. I am sure ther