rsync transmits unchanged data

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:36:05AM +0200, Martin Kammerlander wrote:
> hi all!
> 
> I tried to synchronise a directory with the following command:
> 
> rsync -avz --exclude "db/" /source/ /destination/folder/ --delete
> 
> The source has 3 subfolders one of them is not necessary for to synchronize so i
> exluded this folder.
> everything works fine and fast :) excludes were made...and all seems ok
> The data on the source folder changes every day once.
> 
> But there is still one "problem": i tried to execute this command several times.
> Sometimes rsync gives me the following output:
> 
> 
> building file list ... done
> 
> sent 2801 bytes  received 20 bytes  5642.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 28151695  speedup is 9979.33
> 
> So everything is up to date no changes were made...this is how it should be!
> 
> 
> But mostly rsync copies always the same files of a certain folder again to the
> destination folder...although REALLY no changes were made to the files!?
> 
> rsync copies not all files of the this certain folder but only a few of them...
> 
> Sombody knows what's going wrong here...or maybe what is more likely: what I'm
> doing wrong on my command?
> 
> thanks for any suggestion

Why don't you include one or two more '-v' and then mail us the output
for when rsync transfers file even though you think it shouldn't.

-chris