Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Willie Wonka wrote: JJ wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I don't think I have lost the rsync data. Basically, what I do is: rsync -nave ssh ~/Documents/stuff/ remote:~/school/stuff/ Even if have changed only one or two files, it still wants to transfer everything. I will check out rdiff-backup.

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Willie Wonka
JJ wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > I don't think I have lost the rsync data. Basically, what I do is: > > > > rsync -nave ssh ~/Documents/stuff/ remote:~/school/stuff/ > > > > Even if have changed only one or two files, it still wants to transfer > > everything. > > > > I will check ou

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread JJ
Your command is correct for what you want. I think you are running into issues with differences between the filesystems meta data. The -a options tells it to sync. up uid, gid, permissions, etc. So it is probably changing the uid and gid for all your files as it goes along. Causes a slight delay,

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le lundi 3 juillet 2006 07:10, Roberto Sanchez a écrit : > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > have you lost the rsync-data on the receiving end? I actually use > > rdiff-backup myself, but istm that if you lose the rsync data on the > > receiving end, then it will try to sync everything. Maybe I don'

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Vaughan wrote: I've seen entering/leaving daylight savings do something similar with Windows shares rsynced to linux. It might be worth letting rsync copy a few of the files to a temp location, and manually comparing timestamps/permissions etc. OK. I'll give that a shot. -Rober

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 03 July 2006 16:19, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > but still, istm that for some reason rsync doesn't realise that you > > haven't changed everything. maybe you need to go through it once and > > then its alright after that? just a thought. > > Interesting. I c

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I think i'm sending you down the wrong road. rdiff-backup does incremental backups of data using rsync to transfer the data. but still, istm that for some reason rsync doesn't realise that you haven't changed everything. maybe you need to go through it once and th

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:10:07AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >have you lost the rsync-data on the receiving end? I actually use > >rdiff-backup myself, but istm that if you lose the rsync data on the > >receiving end, then it will try to sync everything. May

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: have you lost the rsync-data on the receiving end? I actually use rdiff-backup myself, but istm that if you lose the rsync data on the receiving end, then it will try to sync everything. Maybe I don't understand what you're doing though. I don't think I have lost

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:04:27PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This is not Debian-specific (at least I don't think it is), but I will > ask here regardless. I have recently acquired a MacBook (a graduation > gift from my parents). Anyhow, while I was recently traveling, I did > some work o

rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
This is not Debian-specific (at least I don't think it is), but I will ask here regardless. I have recently acquired a MacBook (a graduation gift from my parents). Anyhow, while I was recently traveling, I did some work on it. When I try to rsync back to either of my workstations (both runni