Rsync - Copying Every File Every Time

[Gabby James]

Thanks for helping fix my problem.  When I use either a -a or -t as you have 
suggested, only the files that have changed get transferred.

Thanks again!

>From: Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org>
>To: Gabby James <lizard0000092 at hotmail.com>
>CC: rsync at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: Rsync - Copying Every File Every Time
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:30:11 -0800
>
>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:23:25AM -0700, Gabby James wrote:
> > I am using rsync 2.6.3 on RH 9 Linux systems.  I think everytime I run 
>the
> > rsync command, all the files get transferred even if they haven't 
>changed.
>
>If you don't use -t (--times) which is implied by -a (--archive), they
>all get updated (since the quick-check algorithm just compares the
>modify-time and the size of the file).  However, only the checksum data
>gets tranferred during this process (so it is faster than a full
>transfer).  See also -c (--checksum) -- an alternative to the default
>quick-check algorithm that doesn't require you to preserve each file's
>modify-time, but it does slow things down quite a bit.
>
>..wayne..

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