Rsync 2.6.9 does not skip any files based on modification time

[Tony Abernethy]

Are you preserving the times?

There are many combinations.
Me, I always use -a and then add stuff.
Copying or Rsyncing windows stuff always seems to have stuff 
(essential to Linux/Unix) missing from the windows side.

But nothing in that parameter list looks like it would 
preserve the modification time  (or any other time).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org] On 
> Behalf Of Paul Slootman
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:03 AM
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Rsync 2.6.9 does not skip any files based on 
> modification time
> 
> On Fri 08 Feb 2008, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to rsync some ghost images from a windows 
> client running Windows
> > XP to my Linux server. The problem is that rsync sends the 
> complete files
> > again even if nothing changed on the client side. The only 
> way to avoid this
> > is to use the "-c"-option but this takes nearly as long as 
> uploading the
> > files would.
> > 
> > The server is running rsync-2.6.9, /etc/rsyncd.conf looks 
> as follows.
> > /mnt/D/ is a FAT32 partition.
> [...]
> > used to call rsync from cwrsync.cmd
> > rsync -rvvvv --del --modify-window=3 /cygdrive/E/HDD-Abbilder/
> > stefan at 192.168.99.10::HDD-Abbilder
> 
> You're correctly using --modify-window, which is otherwise 
> the probable
> solution to your problem. However, somehow rsync still considers an
> update necessary. You can use -i (--itemize-changes) to let rsync show
> what attributes are incorrect, triggering the update.  Once you know
> that, you can try to fix it.
> 
> 
> Paul Slootman
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