Rsync --non-existent-dir-only feature :) ..

[Robert Raszuk]

> Does the --ignore-existing option do what you want?

Sounds one huge step further for this particular application ! I admit
that I missed it since man rsync on the web does not show this command
;).

Since it recurses down to the files under dir-x and since it could find
some files modified there or not existent it would be great if it could
just keep going (no permissions to write there) instead of dumping a
core and terminating. 

I tried --ignore-errors but this seems only applicable to the delete
file knob.

R.

> Dave Dykstra wrote:
> 
> Does the --ignore-existing option do what you want?  It will probably recurse
> into the existing directories, but ignore all regular files that already exist.
> 
> - Dave Dykstra
> 
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:01:03AM +0100, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I can't find a way to achive something probably quite wired :). Let's
> > say I have two unix folders (on different machines):
> >
> > /dst-top-1n/
> >        |
> >        dir-a
> >            | files
> >        |
> >        dir-b
> >            | files
> >        |
> >        dir-c
> >            | files
> >
> > /src-top-2/
> >        |
> >        dir-a
> >            | files
> >        |
> >        dir-b
> >            | files
> >        |
> >        dir-x
> >            | files
> >
> >
> > Always src is top-2 & dst is top-1. All I need to do is to be able to
> > send dir-x files to top-1 without even touching dir-a & dir-b simply
> > because the overall tool does not have permissions to write access them.
> >
> > To make it more interesting there are 100s of those top-1 directories
> > (each on different client machine), the rsync is fully automated, and
> > the context of each of the top-1 dir differs. Sync is triggered by src.
> >
> > What I am really looking for is something like in the subject one liner
> > knob which would compare dir-x directories on src/dst and perform no
> > action under matching already dirs on both machines.
> >
> > Huge Thx - Rsync Rocks !!!!
> > R.
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