transfer stats wrong?

[Dan Letkeman]

Matt,

Those commands didn't seem to make any changes.  Any other ideas?

Dan.

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:34 -0500, Dan Letkeman wrote:
>  > I have a set of files on my laptop running xp.  I'm using
>  > cwRsync_2.0.10 and syncing to a Netware Server.  Everything appears to
>  > be working fine, but the stats don't look right.  When I run the sync
>  > for the first time it says this:
>  >
>  > Number of files: 2429
>  > Number of files transferred: 2119
>  > Total file size: 350713189 bytes
>  > Total transferred file size: 350713189 bytes
>  > Literal data: 0 bytes
>  > Matched data: 350713189 bytes
>  > File list size: 53362
>  > File list generation time: 0.555 seconds
>  > File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
>  > Total bytes sent: 839730
>  > Total bytes received: 1094786
>  >
>  > sent 839730 bytes  received 1094786 bytes  19639.76 bytes/sec
>  > total size is 350713189  speedup is 181.29
>  >
>  > And when I run it a second time without changing any files it says
>  > exactly the same thing.  Why is it still transferring 2119 files
>
>  Probably differences in mtime are preventing rsync's "quick check" from
>  skipping transfers of unmodified files.  To confirm this, pass -i and
>  see if you get itemize codes like ">f..t......".  Then, pass -t if you
>  aren't doing so already, and try --modify-window=1 in case mtimes on the
>  destination filesystem have two-second granularity.  If that doesn't fix
>  the problem, I'll give you some more things to try.
>
>
>  > and
>  > why does it say that it received 1094786 bytes?
>
>  Delta-transferring 350MB of files that turn out to be unmodified could
>  reasonably involve receiving that much data.
>
>  Matt
>
>