Rsync decides to copy all old files to WinXP based server

[Alex Janssen]

Wayne Davison said the following on 04/04/2006 12:49 AM:

>On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:12:32AM -0400, Alex Janssen wrote:
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>>The first backup I ran after the time change to Daylight Saving Time
>>it wanted to copy all of the files regardless of the timestamp.
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>Check out this excellent write-up of the MS Windows brain damage that
>causes this in this old message (from the much-missed J.W.):
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>    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00995.html
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>There are suggestions contained therein that describe how to avoid the
>problem in the future (for those that can't switch to a better OS).
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>..wayne..
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The article describes a couple of good circumvention methods, but, this
wouldn't happen if I were to setup a Linux or Unix system as a backup
server?

Alex

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