full upload happening even though only a timestamp has changed

[Tom Goulet]

Hello,

For no apparent reason Rsync is uploading the whole file even though the
the remote file is identical to the local file.  Here is a transcript to
demonstrate what is going wrong:
tomg at nova:~/mylibrary$ rsync -rtlPvessh /extra/library teep:/extra/tomg
building file list ...
46349 files to consider
wrote 1358812 bytes  read 20 bytes  44551.87 bytes/sec
total size is 5240249974  speedup is 3856.44
tomg at nova:~/mylibrary$ touch /extra/library/software/Knopper,_Klaus/KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-04-18-EN.iso
tomg at nova:~/mylibrary$ rsync -rtlPvessh /extra/library teep:/extra/tomg
building file list ...
46349 files to consider
library/software/Knopper,_Klaus/KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-04-18-EN.iso
    12288000   1%    1.05MB/s    0:11:09

It will take eleven minutes or so and upload the entire thing.  What I
expected to happen was Rsync doing its checksum thing on the entire file
and then not uploading anything because the file was the same.

Here are listings of two files on the remote host to show that uploading
is really happening:
-rw-------    1 tomg     users    104792064 Apr 21 18:07 .KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-04-18-EN.iso.vNUGjU
-rw-r--r--    1 tomg     users    729716736 Apr 21 13:55 KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-04-18-EN.iso

Local Rsync is version 2.5.6-0.1 on Debian testing.  Remote Rsync is
version 2.5.4 on Slackware 8.0.  If I recall correctly, the same problem
happened with a remote Rsync of version 2.5.5-0.1 on Debian testing.

Is this a bug?  Am I doing something wrong?  Please give me a CC as I am
not subscribed.

Thanks,
-- 
Tom Goulet, tomg at em.ca, D8BAD3BC, http://web.em.ca/~tomg/contact.html
 
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