On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Niamh Holding <niamh at fullbore.co.uk> wrote: > > KH> Indeed: the sequence of dots and letters before the name indicates why > KH> rsync wants to update a file. > > Ah, not time but owner and group are different, and not being changed on > the NAS. > > Is this a CIFS "thing"? CIFS mounts are normally done as one user, with user-level credentials. If this user is the owner of all the files and directories on the source side, they should match - but otherwise an attempt to change ownership will fail. Samba offers a user mapping option that might help but if the NAS offers nfs (or ssh and rsync), that might be a better approach. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com