modification times questions

[McDowell, Blake]

Transferring files to our NAS over fiber. Nothing unusual...
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From: Kevin Korb [kmk at sanitarium.net]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 3:08 PM
To: McDowell, Blake; rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: modification times questions

I have never seen rsync do that.  What exactly are you doing?

On 04/07/2017 03:07 PM, McDowell, Blake wrote:
> Thank you!
>
> I run --times when I use rsync (I actually use the -a flag) but the times do not transfer over and if I run rsync dryrun with -i I can see that it wants to transfer the files because of times. When I run rsync a second time with your suggestion the times do transfer over. I don't know why...
>
> B
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> From: rsync [rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org] on behalf of Kevin Korb via rsync [rsync at lists.samba.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 2:58 PM
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: modification times questions
>
> If you are sure the content is correct you can run rsync with both
> --times and --size-only.
>
> This will cause rsync to "fix" the timestamps on files that are the same
> size on both ends.
>
> On 04/07/2017 02:53 PM, McDowell, Blake via rsync wrote:
>> How do I transfer just the modification times with rsync? I now the file
>> content is the same but the modification times are different. Is there a
>> way to do this? Every way that I have tried causes the whole file to
>> transfer as well.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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        Kevin Korb                      Phone:    (407) 252-6853
        Systems Administrator           Internet:
        FutureQuest, Inc.               Kevin at FutureQuest.net  (work)
        Orlando, Florida                kmk at sanitarium.net (personal)
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