cross platform rsync avz lists all directory names in tree

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Tue May 23 16:07:06 GMT 2006


On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:18:23AM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote:
> another/path/
> another/path/withoutanychangedfiles/
> yet/anotherpath/withoutanychangedfiles/
> ...

If this is caused by a change in timestamps, you can avoid the updating
of directory timestamps by using the -O option.  If you still see
updates to the directories, then using -i will at least tell you what
attributes rsync thinks are different (and, as Matt indicated, you could
filter the -i output to get rid of any updating-attribute lines).

One other potential cause for a timestamp difference:  if you're copying
to a FAT filesystem, you should use the option --modify-window=1 because
the timestamps can't store an odd value.

..wayne..


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