[Duplicity-talk] Re: Copied files, all modified now.

[Jeff Cook]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Jeff Cook <address@hidden> wrote:
> I copied all of my files locally from a Windows server to a Linux
> server. Duplicity is going through its first run on the Linux server
> at the moment (with --allow-source-mismatch), but it is marking almost
> every file modified. Is this because of metadata/chmod type changes?
> The data is mostly identical, but somewhat big tars are getting
> uploaded. Would this metadata change throw some stuff off?
>
> Also, it may just be that some of these weren't allowed to be uploaded
> by Windows, so that's part of the problem potentially. But right now
> I'd just like to minimize the transfer where possible, so I want to
> know of any potential problems with this.
>
> From
> Jeff
>

I've just done a dry-run which shows 25GB in changes (on a 50GB set).
This is incorrect, as I copied the files and rsync'd them back and
forth a couple of times between the two local servers. How can I get
duplicity to only catalog the useful changes, instead of uploading
25GB in "changed" files?