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Old 06-29-2012
rsync not syncing a file
I am trying to sync the source tree into backup and somehow
this one file dumper.c is not in sync, see below after running the script:

Code:
/u/prj/dir$ l -tr dumper.c /v/tmp/prj_src/dir/dumper.c
-rw-rw-r--   1 prj    group      15635 Jun 20 16:28 /v/tmp/prj_src/dir/dumper.c
-rw-rw-r--   1 prj    group      15532 Jun 27 11:18 dumper.c

I added -vvv to the backup script:
Code:
 
SRC=/u/prj
TRG=/v/tmp/prj_src
/usr/local/bin/rsync -a -u -m -vvv \
        --include="*/" \
        --include="*.[ch]" \
        --include="*.scr" \
        --include="make*" \
        --include="*.ddl" \
        --exclude="*" \
        ${SRC} ${TRG}

After running the script the rsync output related to the file in question:
Code:
 
/u/prj/dir$ grep dumper /tmp/xx         
[sender] showing file prj/dir/dumper.c because of pattern *.[ch]
[sender] make_file(prj/dir/dumper.c,*,2)
[sender] hiding file prj/dir/dumper.o because of pattern *
recv_generator(prj/dir/dumper.c,535)
prj/dir/dumper.c is uptodate
send_files(535, /u/prj/dir/dumper.c)
recv_files(prj/dir/dumper.c)

Somehow it thinks the target is up to date.
rsync version is 3.0.5
Any idea what am I doing wrong?
# 2  
Old 06-29-2012
-u skips files with a newer mtime locally (place you are getting in sync) than on the remote (source of sync).

The only thing I saw as a possibility.
# 3  
Old 06-29-2012
As you can see the source is changed on 27th of June, the target is 20th of June, so that -u should have make rsync to updated it. Also, just want to point out that source and target are on the same system.
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