Options for a "I'm done" flag file

Lorenz Weber mail at lenzw.de
Tue Apr 28 05:47:01 MDT 2015


Or

rsync -avH ${all_gubbins} / user at remote.machine:/dest/ && ssh user at remote.machine touch /etc/donefile

so your client touches a file on your server (that sounds so wrong...)

Am 28.04.2015 um 13:36 schrieb Simon Hobson:
> Michael Johnson - MJ <mj at revmj.com> wrote:
> 
>> rsync -av /src/ /dst/ && touch /dst/done
> 
> Aaaaahhhh, knew I'd miss some detail.
> All the syncs are pushed to the backup server.
> 
> But that does give me an idea. I guess I could do that on the source, then sync the flag file over.
> rsync -avH ${other_gubbins} / user at remote.machine:/dest/ &&
>   touch /etc/donefile &&
>   rsync -av ${some_other_gubbins} /etc/donefile user at remote.machine:/dest/
> 
> That (or some variation of it) could work.
> 



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