Confused as to why rsync thinks time, owner and group of many files differ

[Paul Slootman]

On Thu 03 Feb 2022, Andy Smith via rsync wrote:

> sudo rsync -iPva \
>     --inplace \
>     --numeric-ids \
>     --delete \
>     /data/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/cacti/ \
>     root at koff:/data/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/cacti/
> 
> ...
> <f..t.og... var/www/index.html
>           5,258 100%    5.78kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1276, to-chk=1/43437)

Could you try the transfer like this?:

sudo rsync -ia \
    --debug=OWN,TIME \
    --inplace \
    --numeric-ids \
    --delete \
    /data/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/cacti/var/www/index.html \
    root at koff:/data/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/cacti/var/www/

That should give detailed information about ownership and modification
times, limiting the transfer to just that index.html file to limit the
amount of output.


Paul