John O Laoi wrote:
Hello, I have the same structure on 2 machines. I want to keep them in sync. I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD and then rsync from the other as follows ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/ ./Documents/ Password: receiving file list ... done Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods But the file ~/Documents/X/Y/ZZZ.ods on the machine I am issuing the command on does not change!
Some ideas:- I'm always adding a dot after the end slashes of directory paths (rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/. ./Documents/. ), this makes sure the tool doesn't inadvertently create a subdirectoy like ./Documents/Documents/
- issue "find ./Documents -name ZZZ.ods" to see whether there is more than one of the same name (for example to check if the above happened).
- check with "md5sum" whether the documents are the same or not - maybe quit openoffice before opening the document again. Christian.