that diff has /misc/misc/ in the second compare argument. Not sure if thats the exact command you have been entering or if you retyped it. If that is a good path or is rsync creating new “misc” folders inside your original misc folder? -- Jeremy Thompson Sports Warehouse Inc. jeremy at warehousesports.com > On May 1, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > > I have an Intel SS4000E fileserver that I've been using for several years to backup my home directory to. > > I have a daily cron job that runs the following command: > > rsync -av --delete /home/frankcox/ /mnt/fileserver/backup > > 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/ > > Notice the spaces in the subdirectory name; I don't know if that's relevant or not. > > I store a number of bzip-ed pdf files in that subdirectory, like this: BARTOKA.pdf.bz2, BARTOKB.pdf.bz2 and so on. > > Now for the mystery. > > 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. > > 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/ > > That command gives me no output, so the contents of that subdirectory appear to match on both machines. > > So why is that subdirectory getting copied again every day when it hasn't changed? > > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 842 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20150501/064e7b5c/attachment-0004.sig>