DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6307] "rsync --remove-source-files foo/ foo/" should not delete files
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Sat Feb 20 19:34:39 MST 2010
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6307
cooleyr at gmail.com changed:
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------- Comment #1 from cooleyr at gmail.com 2010-02-20 20:34 CST -------
A big _me too_ on this one.
"Gee, my main storage space is nearly full, I need to move it off to another
disk immediately... It's kinda important so I don't want to use mv and just
hope everything goes okay... You know, if I use rsync, I'll get file
checksuming, and some stats. Perfectly. Let me just wrap-off a quick cmd-line
before we run out of space. Perfect! Hmm, where'd they go? Dammit! 200
GBytes of 'didn't have a chance to back it up yet' data GONE. Thanks rsync!"
While I recognize my mistake in all of this, and while important and
irreplaceable, the data wasn't critical, but I remain in a mild furor over
pretty much the one and only possible way this could go wrong, not being
checked for, despite how trivial doing so would be... This is just a complete
lack of design fore-thought on a critical-data tool. Combine this with the
terrible performance I'm seeing on filesystems with large numbers of
files/folders, and my days of promoting rsync are over. I guess it's time I
really check out Unison...
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