rsync keeps backing up the same folder even if it did not change

Red Squirrel · 03-22-2010, 06:20 PM

I've had this happen before, but it had magically stopped doing it.

Now it's doing it again. I wrote a bunch of backup scripts that use rsync to manage my backups and at random, certain folders will always get copied no matter what. It's quite anoying, since it makes the backups take longer then they have to. There's no reason to copy a 60GB folder over and over again if it never changed. Why is it doing this?

The command I'm using is:

Code:

rsync -vrbupogl --delete-delay --exclude-from="exclude.txt" ${baksource} /mnt/rembackupdisk/bakdata/ | grep -vi "skipping "

Where ${baksource} is a directory. Most of the stuff works as it should, but some specific folders get backed up no matter what, and by folders, I mean the ENTIRE contents, again and again. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

jvaldivia · 03-23-2010, 08:05 AM

I use rsync -zua $SRC $DEST --log-file=$LOG and a screen session to have it all logged and it update the folder changes properly, give it a try.

I wrote a post with the script I'm using. http://soad1982.blogspot.com/2009/09...te-to-usb.html