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<p>why not avoid using "--remove-source-files" and delete files
manually/via extra step afterwards ?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 17.10.22 um 08:59 schrieb Sridhar
Sarnobat via rsync:<br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#006600">90% of my
data losses are caused by rsync'ing from dir A to dir A
(accidental incorrect copy and paste, or where dir B is a
symlink to dir A). The source gets erased unintentionally.<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It may
seem dumb but when you get really long commands and
really long file paths it will happen a 1-2 times a
year<span class="gmail_default"
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when I'm doing it dozens/hundreds of times every
week.</span></span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Is there an
existing mechanism to protect against this?</b> <span
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,102,0)">rsync
should logically never erase all copies of data.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,102,0)"></span>I
know I can backup files (which I do for my smaller
drives), or create wrapper scripts but I'm not asking
about those.<span class="gmail_default"
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I don't think adopting --dry-run is practical being
such a heavy user (and moreover, it's unlikely to
warn what will happen). </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I'm not a C
developer so I probably can't do this myself but if
anyone's encouraging me to then I'd give it a shot.</font></div>
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