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Hello to all, I have a script which uses rsync quite nicely to backup my Linux mail server to my XP machine from time to time to facilitate CDR archives. The scrip is run as a batch file on the XP box and is scheduled via Windows Scheduler. It works quite well with one exception: many of the mail files come through as 0KB files and it seems that most of these have unusual filenames,

Hi all. I'm sorry if this is a simple, obvious question, but I've looked around, and can not find an answer to this. What exactly are the false_alarms in the rsync summary? I am getting a number of false alarms in several of my rsync processes. Here's my output from one of my logfiles: total: matches=9724 tag_hits=741242 false_alarms=36 data=20850152 wrote 11731892 bytes read