André Hänsel
2009-Mar-30 12:20 UTC
Why are files synced again and again when not using -a?
Hi, usually I use rsync with -a but recently I used it without this option and discovered that the same files are synced over and over again (as shown by -v). Of course the rsync algorithm avoids the traffic but the files are all listed. As soon as I use -a for one time those files are not transferred again, even when I remove the -a again. So I suspect, when building the file list, rsync doesn't take into account that it won't be able to transfer some attributes anyway (because of missing -a) and tries again to transfer them. Is this the desired behaviour? This is valid for rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29. Regards, Andr?
Hendrik Visage
2009-Mar-30 13:01 UTC
Why are files synced again and again when not using -a?
perhaps using Windows or FAT32 type filesystems? On 3/30/09, Andr? H?nsel <andre@webkr.de> wrote:> > Hi, > > usually I use rsync with -a but recently I used it without this option and > discovered that the same files are synced over and over again (as shown by > -v). Of course the rsync algorithm avoids the traffic but the files are all > listed. > > As soon as I use -a for one time those files are not transferred again, > even > when I remove the -a again. > > So I suspect, when building the file list, rsync doesn't take into account > that it won't be able to transfer some attributes anyway (because of > missing > -a) and tries again to transfer them. > > Is this the desired behaviour? > > This is valid for rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29. > > Regards, > Andr? > > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >-------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Wayne Davison
2009-Mar-30 13:55 UTC
Why are files synced again and again when not using -a?
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:13:49PM +0200, Andr? H?nsel wrote:> usually I use rsync with -a but recently I used it without this option > and discovered that the same files are synced over and over again (as > shown by -v).You should at least specify -t when not using -a. See the -a option in the manpage to see what options it implies. ..wayne..