Quoting Rob Malpass <linux@???>:
> Hi all
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> This may or may not be of interest to rsync fans (and by the way many many
> thanks for all of your help the other week). Here's the situation..
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> One of the files I want to backup is an rsync container. As it's a
> container, its' file size is always 100Gb exactly and (I've just checked)
> that its' date stamp remains the date I physically moved it from its'
> previous home to my new server - despite the fact the contents have changed
> daily since then. So if (as according to rsync's man page) the algorithm
> checks for a change in file size or date stamp - it will determine this file
> doesn't need attention. Anybody know of a way to bypass this and force it
> to copy the file every time?
So, I'll ignore the grammar lessons - others would seem to have that in
hand....
One option would be:
"-c, --checksum"
But that would likely be extremely slow on a file of that size.
If it were me, I would just "touch" the file after every rsync, so the
next rsync would see it as changed.
Chris
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