[aklug] Re: rsync help

Check out a program called metastore. It's handy when you want to
move around permission data only.

I use metastore when syncing to destinations that I can't trust to
persist metadata information.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Scott A. Johnson
<scott.a.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just spent the last several days transferring 3,000 files over a
> slow link and perhaps made a mistake I'd like to fix. =A0When I ran the
> rsync command I forgot to include a -t flag to preserve original file
> date/time. =A0Is there anyway to re-run rsync to have it just go through
> and update the date/time on the 3,000 files without actually
> transferring the file data again? =A0As I said, it took several days so
> I'd like to save that time and frankly the source is a degraded raid
> array that I'm trying to move everything off of before it fails, so I
> really don't want to stress the girl anymore than I have to =A0:P
> Ultimately it's not the end of the world as these files were the bulk
> of what was on the array so if all I have to put up with is some
> changed dates, not the end of the world.
>
> If I can't fix this with rsync, I'm also open to other ideas/suggestions.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Scott A. Johnson
> scott.a.johnson@gmail.com
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Received on Sun Feb 27 14:13:13 2011