On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Niamh Holding <niamh at fullbore.co.uk> wrote: > Hello Les, > > Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 4:09:43 PM, you wrote: > > LM> What happens if you use --modify-window=3601 to allow up to an hour of > LM> difference? Your NAS may have windows-like behavior in terms of > LM> storing timestamps in local time and fudging them for DST. > > Exactly the same :( What about the ownership/permissions? There must be something in the attributes that appears different between the source/destination that makes rsync want to attempt to fix it - and fail, since you still see it the next time. Not sure why this would be different between files and directories, though. If you can find the difference you might work around it by unbundling the -a option and omitting trying to sync whatever attribute that isn't working. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com