ignore time completely (don't report with -i)?

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Mon Jun 17 09:29:18 MDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Ian Smairk <smairk at aol.com> wrote:

>  Is it possible to completely turn off time synchronization? Because
> windows (cygwin) targets seem unable to handle them, and I'm basically
> using rsync -ri as a remote diff. I want to verify that ftp'd files are
> faithfully transferred (no CRLF bull, for example).
>

To check file contnets you need -c.  Without that you're comparing size and
mtime, and the capital T is just telling you that the required file
transfer (due to those not matching) is going to set the mtime to "now".
 You could also try --size-only, but I don't recommend it (since files
sometimes change content w/o changing size).

There are several ways to speed-up a checksum transfer if you find that it
is too slow.  The patch checksum-updating.diff handles that via text files
inside the file hierarchy. The db.diff patch handles it via external
databases (mysql or sqlite are currently supported).  I have been updating
db.diff for the 3.1.0 version just recently since I started to use it at
work recently.

..wayne..
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