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...at compares the xattrs (which I know nothing about) in order to determine whether or not to transfer files, I'd want two months for that ;-). Would be fixed if the source time stamp changes when xattrs are changed, though. Cheers again, Stein > On 16 Feb 2025, at 14:39, Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan <s.v.h.haugan at astro.uio.no> wrote: > > Actually... I have made an extremely small and simple patch implementing an option --time-only, and I have made a pull request for it: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/719 > > It allows you to truncate your local files after tr...

...al-file.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 steinhh astuser 0 Jan 3 2017 original-file.txt I'll bake it into another (or the same) patch if you give me a month of time, never mind the money. A month includes overhead & a nice profit, I really need the time ;-). Cheers, hope this will work for you! Stein Haugan > On 15 Feb 2025, at 21:24, Peter B. via rsync <rsync at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > Hello everyone :) > > I'd like to follow up on this thread of mine, if that's okay? > > Is there anything I could do to get the feature functionality of "using rsync to c...

Hello everyone :) I'd like to follow up on this thread of mine, if that's okay? Is there anything I could do to get the feature functionality of "using rsync to create a thin (attributes-only) copy" upstream on the long term? Could I talk to a developer, for hire? I'm really professionally interested in such a feature, as it would greatly make our lives in the