files' timestamp handling - bug or design decision?

[Eugene Kramer]

Nah, "-a" does not work as it implies "--times", which preserves the
timestamps. Always. I wanted to avoid that for the files that have not
changed aside from the attributes. Wayne Davison confirmed that the
combination that I want to do is not possible with rsync right now, so
I'll have to work around it.

Eugene.


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:07:07 +0200, Amadeus R. <jav9d2p02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> > I want to be able to do two things together:
> > -- transfer files from the source to destination only if the files'
> > contents is changed
> 
> rsync -avr
> 
> Consider: -W -x --delete --delete-excluded --log-format='%i %f'
> 
> Use --dry-run when testing for the right configuration to avoid data loose.
> 
> > -- when the files are transfered, I want to preserve original timestamp
> 
> Try -a.
> 
> > By looking at the switches available in rsync, I assumed that a
> > combination of --times and --checksum would do what I want, but
> > apparently, --times not only tells rsync to preserve timestamps on
> > transfer, but also to consider the files for the transfer if there is
> > a discrepancy in the mtime of the files.
> 
> rsync's defaults is pretty sane, and does what you want in most cases. Try
> rsync -avr --dry-run
> and see, if this doesn't solve your needs.
> 
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