Re: why each time I do a file sync,

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Adrian Mak <makkaichung@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> rsync --progress --verbose --stats --recursive
> test@100.100.100.100::test /home/test2 --stats
>
> but each time it showed me files are being transfer but actually the
> files is not changed or updated any.

Since you are using --recursive instead of --archive the timestamps
aren't copied. On the next run, rsync thinks the file has changed
since the timestamps are not the same, and it must transfer the file.
However, since rsync does a block checksum comparison, it discovers
that the data really hasn't changed. So no actual data is sent again.

Use --archive (or at least use --times).

Also, remove the trailing --stats.

John
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