Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 14:48:03 -0700 From: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX Message-ID: <CANnsUMF8udkQq=qQaUEGPtW9-LXsbrmdx0va_8cd_AhfnGB%2B8A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <67um8rd2r07ipc.fsf@saturn.laptop> References: <CANnsUMGyULjmK%2BQYeJHggZ6B2082wCPvU-8E_qcyg4j2OMrSWg@mail.gmail.com> <67um8rd2r07ipc.fsf@saturn.laptop>
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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> > wrote: > > I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until today. I > > generally use it instead of the copy command because if the copy fails > > on large files, I can pick up where I left off. I have backed up > > entire Final Cut Pro projects this way with no issues. However, I > > recently synced a drive to a folder in another drive, and the OS does > > not recognize the final rendered files as quicktime files. The files > > work fine in the parent drive. I have no idea what might be going on. > > I used the flags: rsync -vaur like I always do. Any suggestions? > > This is a FreeBSD list, so any issues rsync may have with MacOS X are > not very relevant to what FreeBSD is doing or would do. Having said > that though, can you try without the -u option? Maybe modification > times are newer on the target drive and rsync skips everything. > > You should probably also enable --stats and have a look at the final > report of rsync, to see if it actually sync'ed any files, or skipped all > of them because of mtime checks. > > Yep, the files copied, and I used "touch" to force them to recopy. However, the files that were copied are not recognizable by their native aps. Just big junk files. I have no clue what happened. I am just copying everything by a simple cut and paste this time. However, this directory is HUGE and I won't know until about 18 hours from now. Thanks, Chris Maness
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