rsync - Aug 2007 - rsync always gets index.html

I use to sync several servers with rsync for years now. One strange thing I 
still havent figured out:

while rsync does its job perfectly will, it cant refuse to transfer all files 
with "index.html" in it, even if the files havent change.

example:
the following files are the same for years, but every night rsync copies them
again:

opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/
opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html
opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.de
opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.en
opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.ja.jis
opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.ko.euc-kr
opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.ru.koi8-r

it doesnt due much harm cause these small files dont use much bandiwidth, but 
its just confusing me and I dont have any clue why rsync copies these files 
again & again. I read the docs and tried to search google, but its difficult
to
search for a term "index.html" ;)

thnx
peter

On 8/5/07, peter pilsl <pilsl@goldfisch.at> wrote:
> example:
> the following files are the same for years, but every night rsync copies
them again:
>
> opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/
> opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html
> opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.de
> opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.en
> opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.ja.jis
> opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.ko.euc-kr
> opt_noraid/marcus/usr/local/apache2-140a/manual/vhosts/index.html.ru.koi8-r
Pass the -i, --itemize-changes option to see why rsync thought the
files needed copying: `s' indicates a difference in size and `t'
indicates a difference in mtime.  If you get `t', make sure you are
using the -t, --times option to set mtimes of destination files equal
to those of the source files so that rsync can later trust that the
data is the same.

Matt