rsync ignoring some new files

[jw schultz]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:06:31PM -0500, Brian Vaughan wrote:
> I have found several instances where rsync refuses to copy a new file.
> I am using it to sync changes from a staging web server to production 
> servers, and there are certain files that it just plain won't copy.  The 
> file is totally new.  No such name has ever existed on the target server(, 
> or on the source server until now).
> 
> In this instance, I added 3 completely new files to the same 
> directory.  Two are copied perfectly, and one of them (ending in tar.Z) is 
> ignored completely.  All files have the same permission.
> -rw-rw-r--   1 cvsuser  cvsgroup   12420 Mar 27 13:37 
> lesstif-0.93.18-5.i386.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--   1 cvsuser  cvsgroup 28452909 Mar 27 13:37 fame90linux_x86.tar.Z
> -rw-rw-r--   1 cvsuser  cvsgroup 2539144 Mar 27 13:37 
> lesstif-0.93.18-5.src.rpm
> 
> The command that I am using
>     /usr/local/bin/rsync -avuz -C ---status 
> --exclude-from=/disk1/tools/scripts/syncwww_exclude --rsh=ssh 
> /disk1/wwwstage/noncvs/downloads www2.fame.com:/disk1/noncvs
> 
> No error is given.  So as many times as I execute the above, it says no 
> files transferred:
> .....
> building file list ... done
> 
> Number of files: 30
> Number of files transferred: 0
> Total file size: 684817120 bytes
> Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
> Literal data: 0 bytes
> Matched data: 0 bytes
> File list size: 874
> Total bytes written: 886
> Total bytes read: 20
> 
> 
> The exclude only has a couple server-dependent file names.  No wildcards.
> 
> I am running rsync 2.4.6 on Solaris 8.

The -C option.

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