Is it transferring all the files again? Just a few? How does df output change?

Trailing slashes on the end of the source and destination are significant. You may be inadvertently creating something like /gx/dir1/dir1/. I know it's happened to me more than once.

For what it's worth, I've been moving a lot of data between filers recently using only ndmpcopy and rsync. I start off with a level 0 ndmpcopy between the filers followed by 'rsync -vahHEP --stats --delete-before src dest/' (which results in dest/src) until I'm ready for the final cutover.

Some of those options for rsync (-h, human-readable, and -E, preserve executability) are newer than what's in the rsync with RHEL4, so I've compiled my own rsync v2.6.9. You could probably just drop those options though. -- /* wes hardin */ UNIX System Admin Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim Integrated Products

tmac wrote:

Okay, I am trying to copy data from a DOT-7 to a DOT-GX.

I start off with:

mount filer7:/vol/src /src mount filerg:/ /gx

I then do (from RHEL4U2):

cp -a /src/dir1 /gx

I then do:

rsyn -avH --delete /src/dir1/ /gx/dir1/

There is nothing changing on the source, yet it transfers files anyway.

Anyone have a clue as to why?

The destination get some files marked with current time, yet others are marked with an older time.

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