3 seconds difference

Posts: 3 · bmwdriver 21 Aug 2012, 17:20

Hi, and kudos on such a great and useful software.

Here is my problem. I have problems syncing my Linux laptop with my NAS
storage, but I will look into that later. Seems it has to do with permissions.
What I do for now is sync it to a USB key (now formated to NTFS), then sync it
to my Windows 7 desktop and then to the network storage. I get to have four
copies of the same, which is ubersafe I figure ;)

Nevertheless, when I try to sync the same files directly from the laptop to
the network drive after the fact (laptop to USB to desktop to NAS), I get 3
seconds difference between all dates of the files.

Might be useful to say at this point that it's a Seagate GoFlex Home drive.
Its format is also NTFS, which I read here was better exactly for dating
issues.

Posts: 3 · bmwdriver 21 Aug 2012, 17:21

Probably good to mention too that the laptop runs Linux Mint Maya (Ubuntu)
with Cinnamon.

Posts: 7279 · Zenju 22 Aug 2012, 09:32

> your copies of the same, which is ubersafe

You know you need to keep at least one copy external, in case the house is on
fire ...?

About the 3 sec difference, this looks like a bug somewhere (but not in FFS
;). FAT has probably the worst resolution with 2 seconds, but there's hardly a
modern file system with a resolution > 2 sec for file modification times. So
it's probably the network drive at fault, either its file system or its
protocol.

Posts: 3 · bmwdriver 23 Aug 2012, 18:10

> You know you need to keep at least one copy external, in case the house is
on fire ...?

How very true. It has crossed my mind indeed.

> So it's probably the network drive at fault, either its file system or its
protocol.

Thank you. As I was finishing to describe my problem, I was beginning to
suspect that the NAS drive could be the problem.

I will investigate that.