[Preston] synching a linux dir to a windows98 dir

[Dougie Nisbet]

Has anyone had much success synchronizing a linux directory to a windows98 
directory? I've experimented with mirrordir and rsync without too much 
success. My main problem with rsync is that it re-copied files that it's 
already done. I've tried various flags to rsync without any progress. Here's 
my current command:

	rsync --delete -ruptv /store/photos/ /backing_up/roberta/c/photos

where /backing_up/roberta/c is mounted using

	smbmount //roberta/c /backing_up/roberta/c -o guest

I have another problem which is the occassional 'too many files open on 
system' error. I've seen this with mirrordir too and from a bit of a google 
it looks like a samba issue. I don't think that's the problem with rsync 
though. All I want to do is mirror a linux directory onto a windows98 share 
and I used to do it fine with rsync but for some reason it's not working 
anymore and I don't know when it happened. 

Any thoughts why rsync should be re-copying files, or any other tools that 
might do the trick.  I've been trying a few experiments with cp -uvr and it 
seems to honour not-overwriting an existing file, so I might script it with a 
find command to remove the files on the windows share that have gone away 
from the source linux dir - seems a bit of a kludge though.