On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:41:22AM +1000, Mike Benoit wrote:
..
> We update about 1.5gb of data each reboot, currently we use the --size-only
> switch to speed things up, with that switch the entire process (from
> rebooting Windows, to being back in Windows) is about 5 minutes. If we take
> that switch off, its unfortunately about 25mins.
..
It sounds like it is not getting a match on the timestamps if --size-only
makes that huge of a difference. Are timestamps being copied ('-t', implied
by '-a')?
I remember hearing something about a mismatch in the granularity of
timestamps on Unix vs. Windows, where Unix goes down to the second and
Windows is down to the every 6 seconds or something like that. So if the
master is on Unix and the copy is on Windows it may never be able to get a
match. If that's the problem, maybe a Windows version of rsync needs to
accept anything within six seconds as a match.
- Dave Dykstra
