--compare-dest weirdness

[Henri Shustak]

> interestingly, i tried to see if something was wrong with my statments by doing:
> mkdir ~/rsynctest/dir1
> mkdir ~/rsynctest/dir2
> mkdir ~/rsynctest/dir3
> 
> nano ~/rsynctest/dir1/file1 (wrote the line hello world and saved)
> nano ~/rsynctest/dir1/file2 (wrote the line hello and saved)
> 
> cp ~/rsynctest/dir1/file* ~/rsynctest/dir2/
> 
> checked md5sums of both files in both dirs to ensure they were identical
> 
> the did rsync -rvu --compare-dest=/home/kevin/rsynctest/dir2/
> /home/kevin/rsynctest/dir1/ /home/kevin/rsynctest/dir3/
> 
> the two files from dir1 were copied to dir3, even though identical
> copies, with the same names, existed in dir2.
> 
> i also tried this again with the compare dir relative to the dest dir,
> i.e.: rsync -rvu --compare-dest=../dir2/ /home/kevin/rsynctest/dir1/
> /home/kevin/rsynctest/dir3/ again with same result



I thought about this further and I think the problem you are having is that the modification times are not being preserved and you are not using the --checksum option. 

As such, I suggest that you add the --times or --checksum option and see if that helps. 

I suspect that this will solve your problem. Let me know =:^)


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