<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear experts,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I would like get your help for the issue with --partial-dir=<u>absolute path.</u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m trying to use rsync to send big file to server and config --partial-dir=<u>absolute path</u> since I want to store temp partial file in /tmp/ directory and keep the destination folder clear.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My server is joe28, client is joe27. And here is the config on server.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">root@joe28:~# cat /etc/rsyncd.conf</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)"># Global settings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">address = 10.148.34.28</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">numeric ids = yes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">uid = 0</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">read only = no</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">reverse lookup = no</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">dont compress = *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">timeout = 10</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">[JOE]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">        path = /home/joe/rsync</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">        comment = Joe's rsync test</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Sending big file from joe27 to joe28:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">root@joe27:~# ls -l /home/joe/rsync/flash_image</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 766028824 Aug 15 15:23 /home/joe/rsync/flash_image</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">root@joe27:~# rsync -a --delete --delay-updates --no-relative </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:red">--partial-dir=/<wbr>tmp </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">/home/joe/rsync/ rsync://<a href="http://10.148.34.28:873/JOE" target="_blank">10.148.34.28:873/JOE</a> -<wbr>P</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">building file list ...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">2 files to consider</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">./</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">flash_image</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">   766028824 100%  108.69MB/s    0:00:06 (xfer#1, to-check=0/2)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">sent 766122429 bytes  received 30 bytes  61289796.72 bytes/sec</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">total size is 766028824  speedup is 1.00</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">However, I still see the partial file in the local directory, but not in /tmp which I configured.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">root@joe28:~# watch --interval=1 ls -al /home/joe/rsync/ /tmp/flash*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">Every 1.0s: ls -al /home/joe/rsync/ /tmp/flash*                   <wbr>                      Tue Aug 15 15:35:55 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">ls: cannot access /tmp/flash*: No such file or directory</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">/home/joe/rsync/:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">total 77064</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">drwxr-xr-x  2 root root        4096 Aug 15 15:35 .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">drwxr-xr-x 32 joe  joe         4096 Aug 15 15:01 ..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">-rw-------  1 root nogroup 78905344 Aug 15 15:35 .flash_image.xlIBqo</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">And finally I saw the “tmp” folder is created on server. That is not my expected.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">Every 1.0s: ls -al /home/joe/rsync/ /tmp/flash*                   <wbr>                      Tue Aug 15 15:36:05 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">ls: cannot access /tmp/flash*: No such file or directory</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">/home/joe/rsync/:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">total 748092</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">drwxr-xr-x  3 root root         4096 Aug 15 15:14 .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">drwxr-xr-x 32 joe  joe          4096 Aug 15 15:01 ..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">-rw-r--r--  1 root root    766028824 Aug 15 15:23 flash_image</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(68,114,196)">drwx------  2 root nogroup      4096 Aug 15 15:36 tmp</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Would you please give some suggestions? Appreciate the help!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">BTW. I tried with --temp-dir but same result. Rsync version is 3.1.2.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal">-Joe</p></div></div>