On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:38 +0100, Andreas Nef wrote: > I have a dozen of external usb disks which should be kept in sync with > a central rsync server. > As I can't predict which OS they will be used with they are formatted > with fat32. If I use them with either Linux (ubuntu) or OS X rsync > works without problems. However, when I try the syncing with the hd > attached to a windows pc the rsync process (using cygwin) will take > close to 40 minutes only check what needs to be updated. Does anybody > know what could be the cause for this strange behaviour? Is it > something with permissions (parameters I used for initial creation of > the copy were "-rtluvz --modify-window=1")? Or are there compatibility > issues with rsync/cygwin?
Cygwin might just be slow, or there might genuinely be something strange going on. Increase the verbosity to -vvv to find out more about what is taking so long. Also, you may wish to use rsync >= 3.0.0 on the Windows machine to get the speed benefit of incremental recursion, if you aren't already doing so. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
