rsync updating time on every file everytime

[Paul Slootman]

On Wed 15 Feb 2006, Rich Stanton wrote:

> I'm running rsync 2.6.4 on debian stable ppc, backing up a couple of
> home directories to a Netware filestore mounted through ncpfs.  My
> command looks like this:
> 
> rsync -r -t --delete -i --modify-window=10 --exclude=/**/.*
> --exclude=/xxx/ /home/xxxx /home/xxxx /mnt/xxxx
> 
> The backup works fine, except that everytime it's run all files are
> listed as having their times modified like this:
> 
> .f..t.... shared/calculator.xls
> 
> I've checked the times on both source & destination & they look the same
> to me, yet it always updates the time.  Any ideas why this is?

I wouldn't be surprised if NetWare doesn't have one-second time
resolution, just like windows. Use the 'stat' command to show exactly
what the contents of the inodes are of two files that should be the
same.

Try --modify-window=1 if that's the problem.


Paul Slootman