On 05/01/2015 12:10 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> I have an Intel SS4000E fileserver that I've been using for several years to backup my home directory to.
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> I have a daily cron job that runs the following command:
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> rsync -av --delete /home/frankcox/ /mnt/fileserver/backup
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> I have a directory named misc/sheet-music/classical. About a week ago I created a new subdirectory there, /home/frankcox/misc/sheet-music-classical/Russian\ and\ Eastern\ European/
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> Notice the spaces in the subdirectory name; I don't know if that's relevant or not.
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> I store a number of bzip-ed pdf files in that subdirectory, like this: BARTOKA.pdf.bz2, BARTOKB.pdf.bz2 and so on.
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> Now for the mystery.
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> The rsync command above gets me a report in my email from cron telling me what files were changed or deleted since the last backup run. And ever since I created that misc/sheet-music-classical/Russian\ and\ Eastern\ European subdirectory, it appears that the files in that subdirectory are getting copied to the fileserver again every day, since they are all listed in the email report that I receive.
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> diff -r --brief /home/frankcox/misc/sheet-music-classical/Russian\ and\ Eastern\ European/ /mnt/fileserver/backup/misc/misc/sheet-music-classical/Russian\ and\ Eastern\ European/
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> That command gives me no output, so the contents of that subdirectory appear to match on both machines.
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> So why is that subdirectory getting copied again every day when it hasn't changed?
Add the "-i" (--itemize-changes) option to the rsync command to see
what rsync believes has changed.
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