rsync - Nov 2005 - Rsync sincronize complete file and not the changes

Hi,

i have probed rsync for sinchronize files beetwen windows 2000 Server
and Linux server.

I have mounted the windows directory with samba and i have executed
rsync with -avr parameters to sinchronize the files.
After sinchronization i have opened one file but i didn't made any
change but openned date of the file.
I have relaunched sinchronization and the file is completely
sinchronized and not only the changes in the date...i haved changed one
character in the file too (the file is a txt file), and it has
completely synchronized  too....what's the problem? Help Me plz

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, MANUEL CANSECO GARCIA wrote:
> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:11:18 +0100
> From: MANUEL CANSECO GARCIA <MCG@mpsistemas.es>
> To: rsync@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Rsync sincronize complete file and not the changes
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i have probed rsync for sinchronize files beetwen windows 2000 Server
> and Linux server.
You need rsync on both sides, e.g. deamon on the server.
When you have rsync on one side only, how could it know, what is the contents
of the file without reading its all bytes?
> 
> I have mounted the windows directory with samba and i have executed
> rsync with -avr parameters to sinchronize the files.
> After sinchronization i have opened one file but i didn't made any
> change but openned date of the file.
> I have relaunched sinchronization and the file is completely
> sinchronized and not only the changes in the date...i haved changed one
> character in the file too (the file is a txt file), and it has
> completely synchronized  too....what's the problem? Help Me plz
> 
Regards,

Wojtek

On Friday, November 25, 2005 2:11 PM
<MCG@mpsistemas.es> wrote:
> I have mounted the windows directory with samba and i have executed
> rsync with -avr parameters to sinchronize the files.
> After sinchronization i have opened one file but i didn't made any
> change but openned date of the file.
> I have relaunched sinchronization and the file is completely
> sinchronized and not only the changes in the date...i haved changed
> one character in the file too (the file is a txt file), and it has
> completely synchronized  too....what's the problem? Help Me plz
With no rsync server, you're mounting an smb share instead, and both 
source/dest are treated as local (in which case the rsync incremental 
algorithm is not used).  You may want to use the "--no-whole-file"
option to
allow the incremental algorithm.

Steve :)