James Pifer wrote:
Quick rsync question. I have a whole bunch of data that I rsync toJames,
another machine for backup purposes. I had to rebuild the primary system
and I copied all the data back to it from the backup. Now when I run the
rsync script it wants to recopy everything, even though it's already
there on both the primary and backup system.
Are there any options on rsync to tell it to look at what's already
there and figure that out without recopying the whole thing? I looked at
the options and it wasn't obvious to me how to do this.
My script looks like this: rsync -av0 --progress --delete --exclude=nice_names /sourcedir /mnt/destdir
Any help is appreciated.
James
It shouldn't have to recopy the entire contents, only the differences. It might be updating external file info group/owner/timestamp which will take a little time. It also might be that you have the path wrong and it is trying to copy to the new path, however this seems unlikely as you use a script. rsync has a "dry run" option that shows what would have been copied but doesn't actually copy anything. You might try using it to debug the problem. see "man rsync" for details.
Thanks,
Dale
