[lbackup-discussion] Fwd: How can I make rsync not overwrite files that has not changed?

henri reply to this message via the mailing list
Sat Jun 19 11:42:12 NZST 2010


>> Sorry for asking this but I find the manpage to be a little 
>> confusing on this. I want rsync  to only replace files that 
>> has acctually a different content, it should completely 
>> ignore any timestamps on files.
> 
> -c, --checksum              skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size

The latest version of LBackup (0.9.8r4-alpha8) has support for checksums within the configuration file. Keep in mind that the enabling the checksum option may substantially increase the time for backups to complete.




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