Sorry for replying to myself, but i think this is quite a problem...
I mean, rsync seems to be arbitrarily changing filenames
Is this the wrong place for such a question? Should i fill in a bug
report?
Marco
On 5 Apr, 2008, at 13:30 , Marco Bridge wrote:
Hi everybody,
i've been using rsync for quite some time to sync files between my
laptop and my desktop
for example i use the following to backup the music library (from
Mac to Linux)
rsync -rvzu --exclude=.DS_Store --delete --exclude 'Podcasts/*'
$LOCAL_MUSI $REMOTE_MUSIC >> $LOGFILE
An odd thing i always noticed is that some files were always copied,
even running the above command 2 times consecutively.
This was happening only for about 30 files in a library of 3000+
songs and with some pdf documents,
so it seemed just some weirdness in the files.
However i just noticed something interesting from today's log,
there seems to be something wrong with the capitalization of some
filenames
deleting acdc/Back In Black/Back In Black.mp3
deleting acdc/Back In Black/
deleting Pink Floyd/The division Bell/Cluster one.mp3
deleting Pink Floyd/The division bell/Keep tolking.mp3
deleting Pink Floyd/The division bell/A great day for freedom.mp3
...
ACDC/Back In Black/
ACDC/Back In Black/Back In Black.mp3
Pink Floyd/The division Bell/A great day for freedom.mp3
Pink Floyd/The division Bell/Keep tolking.mp3
Pink Floyd/The division bell/Cluster one.mp3
The folder 'ACDC/' is copied to the other computer as 'acdc/'
for this reason the next time it will be deleted and re-sent.
in the Pink Floyd case, look at how the 'B' in 'Bell' changes
In this case the folder name seems to be ok on the receiver side,
but rsync deletes the entire folder anyway.
Notice that there are many other file in my library with mixed upper
and lower-case names
(also full upper/lower-case) and they're not affected.
What could be causing that?
Best regards
Marco
More info
*Source
Filesystem: Mac OS Extended
Macintosh, OSX 10.5 Leopard
rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
batchfiles,
inplace, IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal
inums
*Destination
Ubuntu Linux 7.10
Filesystem: vfat (fat32)
rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, ACLs,
64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
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