Time problem

Paul Slootman paul at debian.org
Fri Aug 25 09:02:01 GMT 2006


On Thu 24 Aug 2006, Franck Y  wrote:
> 
> I have a little problem regarding time.
> I want to preserve all time when i transfert for my backup.
> So i used the following option "-t", but when i transfert it i have
> nothing about times just the day when it was transfered.
> Here is a snapshot of what i try to explain
> 
> I transfert my data though this command
> rsync -trvu 192.169.10.69::original /mnt/disque3
> 
> Client side
> ls -la give me this ouptut
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 aoû 24  2006 .
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4096 aoû 24 11:24 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     7 aoû 24  2006 01 // don t have time here
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    14 aoû 24  2006 index  // don t have time here
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 aoû 24 12:07 tee

This is what ls does when the time of the file is "in the future".
Apparently you don't have the system times of both systems in sync.

If you have the 'stat' command you can use that to show the timestamp of
the files.


Paul Slootman


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