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Re: [tlug] Erratic Rsync Behavior



On 04/29/2011 12:07 AM, Raymond Wan wrote:

I was working at my office machine this evening, wrapping up about
21:15 (4/28), at which time I rsynced to the campus server. When I
got home about an hour later and rsynced down to my home system
(4/28-22:15), I checked the files that I had most recently saved,
and they were dated 5:16 am, 4/29 (seen in the bottom two items at
http://www.acmuller.net/download/dolphin3.png).


Perhaps your server at home is set to JST and the one at the office is
set to US Central Daylight Time?

Not originally, and not intentionally, as I am always careful about this on installation. It is not inconceivable, though, that something was changed during an upgrade.

Is either of your machines dual boot?  Maybe with Windows?  I remember
having an annoying timezone problem before where Linux uses UTC and I
think Windows uses the local time.  So, it sort of mattered whether I
had a Windows system and made that dual boot; or started off with a
Linux system and added Windows to it.  Mattered in the sense that I
just had to be careful.

Yes, I am dual-booting, and no doubt this is probably the thing I should check into. I *have* been dual-booting for almost ten years though, and have never had these problems before, which is why I am befuddled by the sudden appearance of this problem. However, when I go to my office next time, I'm going to carefully check the time setting on both Debian and XP.

If you have a timezone problem, then I guess the problem crops up if a
file was modified in the last 16 hours.  For this to be true, that
means that the problem should only occur in one direction -- in the
opposite direction, you would be transferring files "into the future".
  Is that the case?

This most recent event seems to indicate that.

BTW, I'm not that knowledgeable with Windows' file systems...any
reason why you are using FAT and not NTFS?

When I first began using Linux, there was little, if any NTFS support, so I kept running my Windows systems on FAT for a long time. For the machines that I've bought most recently, I'm leaving them as NTFS. No problems.

Thanks,

Chuck

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