Re: [tlug] Erratic Rsync Behavior

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>   >  Starting from a couple of weeks ago, my rsync began to do funny
>   >  things: Sometimes it fails to copy (or update) recently updated
>   >  files (it hits some, but not others). Then the next time I run it,
>   >  it copies every single file, including files that were never touched
>   >  in the interim.
>
> That sounds like you might be right, that it's a time-stamping issue.
>
> It would help if you would post the scripts, at least the rsync
> commands.

A typical one, going up to the server, is like this:

INMOTION="remoteserver:backupdirectory"

rsync --delete -ruvptl -e ssh /mnt/win_d/docs $INMOTION --exclude 
"*.tmp" --exclude "*.wbk" --exclude "tiff/" --exclude "*.bak" 
--exclude "*.*~" --exclude "*~"

In another version, I used -a -v instead of -ruvptl, but this 
doesn't seem to make any difference. As you might guess, this is 
going between a local FAT32 system and a Linux server. Going the 
other way (from the server to local) I use the same arrangement with 
the paths reversed in position.

Chuck

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