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If you are sure the content is correct you can run rsync with both --times and --size-only. This will cause rsync to "fix" the timestamps on files that are the same size on both ends. On 04/07/2017 02:53 PM, McDowell, Blake via rsync wrote:> How do I transfer just the modification times with rsync? I now the file > content is the same but the modification times are different. Is there a > way to do this? Every way that I have tried causes the whole file to > transfer as well. > > Thanks > >-- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. Kevin at FutureQuest.net (work) Orlando, Florida kmk at sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 224 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20170407/a7177c17/signature.sig>
I guess I should also mention that if both trees are local you can use:
find . -print -exec touch "/path/to/wrong/times/{}" --reference
"{}" \;
On 04/07/2017 02:58 PM, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:> If you are sure the content is correct you can run rsync with both
> --times and --size-only.
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> This will cause rsync to "fix" the timestamps on files that are
the same
> size on both ends.
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> On 04/07/2017 02:53 PM, McDowell, Blake via rsync wrote:
>> How do I transfer just the modification times with rsync? I now the
file
>> content is the same but the modification times are different. Is there
a
>> way to do this? Every way that I have tried causes the whole file to
>> transfer as well.
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>> Thanks
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Systems Administrator Internet:
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Orlando, Florida kmk at sanitarium.net (personal)
Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/
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Thank you! I run --times when I use rsync (I actually use the -a flag) but the times do not transfer over and if I run rsync dryrun with -i I can see that it wants to transfer the files because of times. When I run rsync a second time with your suggestion the times do transfer over. I don't know why... B ________________________________________ From: rsync [rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org] on behalf of Kevin Korb via rsync [rsync at lists.samba.org] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 2:58 PM To: rsync at lists.samba.org Subject: Re: modification times questions If you are sure the content is correct you can run rsync with both --times and --size-only. This will cause rsync to "fix" the timestamps on files that are the same size on both ends. On 04/07/2017 02:53 PM, McDowell, Blake via rsync wrote:> How do I transfer just the modification times with rsync? I now the file > content is the same but the modification times are different. Is there a > way to do this? Every way that I have tried causes the whole file to > transfer as well. > > Thanks > >-- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. Kevin at FutureQuest.net (work) Orlando, Florida kmk at sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,