/root is wrongly copied during update

[Kevin Korb]

Any time you don't understand why rsync is copying something the first
step is to use --itemize-changes to find out what rsync thinks is
different about the file.

On 06/18/2016 07:22 AM, Albert Berger wrote:
> For backuping system folders on ArchLinux I use the following command
> per folder:
> 
> rsync --update -DHAErlptgo --relative --delete-during $dir $backupdir
> 
> The problem is that every file in /root folder and its subfolders is
> copied each time when this command is run. In all other folders only
> new or modified files are copied. The files and the folder itself have
> the following attributes:
> 
> [root at kw var]# getfattr /root/.bash_aliases 
> [root at kw var]# getfattr /root
> [root at kw var]# ls -ld /root
> drwxr-x--- 29 root root 4096 Jun 18 13:51 /root
> [root at kw var]# ls -l /root/.bash_aliases 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113 May 17  2015 /root/.bash_aliases
> 
> On backup dir:
> 
> [root at kw var]# getfattr /mnt/backup/home/root/.bash_aliases 
> [root at kw var]# getfattr /mnt/backup/home/root
> [root at kw var]# ls -ld /mnt/backup/home/root
> drwxr-x---+ 1 root root 0 Jun 18 10:02 /mnt/backup/home/root
> [root at kw var]# ls -l /mnt/backup/home/root/.bash_aliases 
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 113 May 17  2015 /mnt/backup/home/root/.bash_aliases
> 
> Could someone advise what can cause such rsync's behaviour?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Albert.
> 

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