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Hi all, Being a rsync newbie, I wanted to use rsync for frequent backups that should only contain the changes. First I made copy of the important partition of the remote PC ("gany") using dd and mounted the resulting local file using a loop device under /mnt/gany. Then I tried: rsync -Haziv --compare-dest=/mnt/gany/lib --compare-dest=/data/A/gany.1 \ root@gany:/lib/ /data/A/gany.1 I expected that rsync check everything and then finished without having anything created, because there is no change between the loop-mounted filesystem and the actual filesystem on "gany". Or...