Hi,
I have some questions regarding rsync.
I've created a little script that makes a backup of my home-directory using
rsync. When I call this script again _all files_ will be copied again.
What's wrong here?
My environment:
OS is Linux (SuSE 10.3)
I want to backup my internal disk to an external disk connected via eSATA.
The internal disk is ext3, the external disk is FAT32 (I want to use this disk
also on my Notebook running WinXP, connected via USB).
I use rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
the external disk is mounted via
mount -t vfat -o uid=1000,gid=100 /dev/sdb1 /media/backup
This is the command in my script:
rsync -auv --progress --modify-window=1 --exclude=\.*
~/ /media/backup/Linux/USER
This works with the effect I described above.
A little modification:
source is now: ~/MP3
destination is now : /media/backup/Linux/USER/MP3
everything works. For the first time it copies all the files to the
destination. When I start it again it builds the file-list and detects that
it has nothing to do. Fine.
But why not in the case of my HOME-directory?
Any ideas?
Thanks.
AugustQ
PS: if this question is already solved and there is a description somewhere a
link is sufficient.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:03:29PM +0100, August C. Quint wrote:> I've created a little script that makes a backup of my home-directory using > rsync. When I call this script again _all files_ will be copied again.You should ask rsync to tell you what is going on using the -i option. If you see an itemized 't', that means it's a time issue, and you should look to see why rsync think the times differ between the files after the copy. ..wayne..