[spam]

I use my TiBook at work, where we store shared files on the LAN. I have no trouble connecting to the server by entering an SMB:// address in the "Connect To..." box in the Finder.

Now I'm trying to set up a couple of scripts to allow me to take files home to work on them and then copy them back to the LAN when I reconnect.

The problem I'm having is that rsync keeps copying every file, instead of just the changed ones. To be more precise, if I rsync a fairly small group of files and then immediately rsync them again, it properly copies nothing the second time. If, however, I wait a few minutes and rsync agin, it proceeds to copy all the files again as if they had all been changed.

My theory is that rsync is checking modification dates of enclosing directories, so that if someone on the LAN saves something to the directory I'm trying to rsync, rsync assumes that everything in the directory changed.

Is there any way around this?

[butter71]

you could try the -c checksum method. it's slower since it computes a checksum for each file instead of checking timestamps. man rsync for details.

if that works, then i imagine that you are correct that there are timestamp issues with the directory or maybe even with smb volumes in general.