This is my first attempt at using rsync, and I think I basically have it figured out, except that something is awry with updating.
My situation is that I have a desktop in another city that I will use once a week or so when I am there. I have a local computer that most work gets done on. I wanted to set rsync to run nightly with a cron job to sync data, and then promptly run again in the other direction so as to get the most update files on both computers. I thought the following would work, but it doesn't seem to. rsync -auvz --progress -e ssh account@distantcomp:~/rsync-testing /home/rob rsync -auvz --progress -e ssh ~/rsync-testing account@distantcomp:~/ The receiving computer gets its files overwritten, whether they are newer or not. The only thing I can think of (other than the more likely fact that I made some boneheaded mistake) is that the date command seems to be in a slightly different format. They are two minutes off, but I've waited far longer than that, but the CST vs. CDT thing might make a difference? Tue Apr 9 00:55:51 CST 2002 -local comp Tue Apr 9 00:58:19 CDT 2002 -distant comp Thanks for any advice, this seems like an amazing program, and I think eventually it will do exactly what I need. -Rob -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
