I get this with Outlook (.pst) files when the change is small (say one additional text email)
Mark Osborne-2 wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I am having a problem with rsync that I hope someone can help me figure > out. We are using rsync to sync up files between our staging and > production ftp servers. Basically internal users are allowed to upload > files via a samba share to a staging server. Those files are then synced > out every 15 minutes via cron to our production ftp servers. > > The problem occurs when a large file is being upload from a windows > machine via the samba share. If a rsync is instantiated during the time > that the file is being uploaded the destination machines get the file with > the correct filesize and timestamp. Unfortunately, even though the file > shows the correct size it is not a good copy of the file. An md5sum of > the files on both the source and destination machine returns different > results. I believe this occurs because windows automatically "reserves" > the full size of the file and fills it out with 0s and then overwrites > this as it goes along copying. This wouldn't be a big deal except, > subsequent runs of rsync (even with -c) fail to overwrite the file. > > I have tested running an rsync while I was copying the file over to the > source directory locally (not via samba) and the file was corrupted. > However after running an rsync again, the file was updated. Basically the > problem only occurs when uploading the file via the samba share. > > I know I could use the -I flag to ignore times and filesizes, but from my > understanding this would result in resyncing every file every time, and > this is not what we want. We are currently using rsync 2.5.5 on the > source machine, and 2.5.7 on the 2 destination machines, but I have also > tested using 2.6.8 on both source and destination with the same results. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem before, or have any ideas for a > fix? Let me know if I'm not being clear enough, or any other information > I can provide. > > ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ > Mark Osborne > Web Systems Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (512) 683-5019 > ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rsync-not-updating-files-even-with-checksum-flag-tf2584909.html#a8192939 Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html