Some files always copied to W2K system

[Frank McNamara]

That seems to have done the trick! Thanks very much for the tip.

Frank


>From: Dave Dykstra <dwd at bell-labs.com>
>To: Frank McNamara <frank_abacus at hotmail.com>
>CC: rsync at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: Some files always copied to W2K system
>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:38:25 -0500
>
>Does using --modify-window=2 solve your problem?  Some windows filesystems
>don't have 1 second granularity timestamps.
>
>- Dave Dykstra
>
>On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:53:57AM +0000, Frank McNamara wrote:
> > I am copying from a rsync --daemon
> > (have tried from both W2K/cygwin & Linux daemons) to a W2K machine.
> >
> > Some files get copied every time even though they haven't been touched
> > since the last copy. I have experimented and deturmined that the file
> > size seems to be important. If the file is between 926 & 933 bytes
> > long it will always be copied!! Other sizes and possibly other aspects 
>of
> > the files are causing this as well. I'm using
> >
> >  rsync -avz otherend::something somewherelocal
> >
> > The same file from the same server into a Linux machine behaves
> > exactly as it should (i.e. copied the first time only unless changed)
> >
> > uname -a on the W2K gives:
> > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 FRANKNT-2 1.3.4(0.47/3/2) 2001-11-05 16:15 i686 unknown
> >
> > and rsync --version
> > rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
> > Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
> > <http://rsync.samba.org/>
> > Capabilities: 32-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, 
>batchfiles,
> >              no IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
> >
> > rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
> > are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
> > General Public Licence for details.
> >
> > As far as I can see all files are updated, so nothing is lost, but it is
> > wasting bandwidth which is one of the great things about rsync!
> >
> > Anyone seen this before? Anyone know if there are fixes for it?
> >
> > Frank McNamara
> > MCH Konsulting Sweden
> > frank at abacus4.com
> >
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