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Oh, and since the shell instructions below are idempotent, you could put them into a script and then execute this from the tippety top of your file tree after every transfer, not caring which files are new or modified: find . -exec <script-name> {} \; My use of the option is not idempotent though, so I need a more elaborate script (which also handles other things). I hope you're not looking for a solution that com...

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 transfer. Outside of rsync, you must then truncate the file to zero size, then set the time stamp back to the original time. On the next run, the file will not be