On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 at 11:41 -0000, Niamh Holding wrote: > EP> Sounds like it might be differences in precision of the timestamp. > > Could be, thoght the NAS box has the sending system as it's NTP server so > their times should be in sync. > > EP> Check out the `--modify-window` option. > > Doesn't seem to stop all the folders being listed even though nothing is > transferred. > > /usr/bin/rsync -av --modify-window=20 --no-whole-file --delete /music /NSA320-music/ > . > . > . > > music/Yes/ > music/Yes/Close to the Edge/ > music/Yes/Fragile/ > music/Yes/Tales From Topographic Oceans/ > music/Yes/Yes Album/ > music/Yes/Yessongs/ > music/Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani & Steve Vai/ > music/Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani & Steve Vai/G3- Rockin' in the Free World/ > music/ZZ Top/ > music/ZZ Top/Live From Texas/ > music/ZZ Top/The Best of ZZ Top/ > music/ZZ Top/ZZ Top Greatest Hits/ > music/lost+found/ If you don't want the directories themselves checked you may want the -O (--omit-dir-times) option. If this is a CIFS or other DOSish filesystem you may also need --no-o --no-p and/or --no-g to ignore other file attributes. Stuart