Logging updated files?

[jw schultz]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:29:36AM -0500, Max Kipness wrote:
> > > What I'd like, is to be able to get a listing of all files that 
> > > changed on the local side and that were updated to the 
> > remote side via 
> > > rsync. The literal data info tells me how many bytes were 
> > transferred 
> > > total, but I'd like to get the break down per file, or at the least 
> > > just get a listing of the files rsync saw as different and 
> > therefore 
> > > updated.
> > > 
> > > I've played with --progress and --stats and not really 
> > found the info. 
> > > The --progress option seems to show every file in the root 
> > regardless 
> > > of whether it's actually different or not. The closest I've 
> > gotten is 
> > > with the --log-format %f%l%b option which tells filename, 
> > file length, 
> > > and bytes transferred. The problem with this is that there 
> > is always 
> > > at least 40 bytes transferred for every file, so I'm not sure how I 
> > > could tell if there is a very slight change in the file.
> > 
> > -v with or without --progress is only supposed to show the 
> > files being transferred.  Unchanged files do not appear in 
> > the list unless you use more --verbose and even then the get 
> > additional labelling.  A single -v without --progress should 
> > meet your minimum requirement.  If it is listing every file 
> > you may be having a lot of false positives and want to review 
> > the options you are using.
> > 
> 
> Now that I look at some of the different rsync implementations I'm
> doing, I notice that linux to linux rsyncs are logging only changed
> files being transferred as you state above. However, my linux to samba
> (local mount to W2K), are the ones that seem to be logging everything
> regardless of change. The only difference in options is that the linux
> to samba is not using the --archive switch because of change of owner
> issues.
> 
> Should the rsync to samba being performing this way?

No.

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