Is there anyway to get rsync to also modify the date modified details of the files it has updated? It would be useful to easily check that the rysnc has performed as expected..
option -t
man rsync
or do you mean it should change the time to the current time? then leave this option
Sorry you just confused me. I want it to update the times so i know what time the files were modified (Which i guess is current time). If rsync is modifying files why would'nt it tell me so and update the times. Is it because the checksum wouldn't match the next time i tried to do an update?
You need to use the -t option, among some others (probably) -t makes the filetimes of the newly created remote files match the filetimes of the old local files.
checksum is a hash against file content not filetimes.
Thanks