How to avoid loosing rsync temp/partial files

Shushu Inbar שושו ענבר shushu.i at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 11:50:26 GMT 2007


I recommend on your last solution (unless other will arise from the mailing
list), since I don't think adding more copy actions would be healthy...

I will wait for some mailing list feedback before I work on this solution.

Regards,
Shushu

On Dec 30, 2007 1:34 PM, Shani Ben - Avraham <Shani.Ben-Avraham at neustar.biz>
wrote:

>  Another possible solution is checking permissions before coping… and if
> the permissions on local folder are not enough… fails without trying to
> copy…
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> *From:* Shushu Inbar שושו ענבר [mailto:shushu.i at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:46 PM
> *To:* rsync at lists.samba.org
> *Cc:* Shani Ben - Avraham; Greg Pendler; Ofer Sofer
> *Subject:* How to avoid loosing rsync temp/partial files
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> Hallo,
>
> I am using rsync to copy remote files into a local directory.
> I use the following flags: "--remove-sent-files --partial-dir=/tmp
> --partial --temp-dir=/tmp --backup --suffix=.bak".
>
> I need the partial issue since in the final destination I must have only
> closed and full files.
> I need to remove the sent files from the destination since I need to avoid
> transferring the same file over and over again.
>
> My problem is that when I have proper permissions in the partial dir, but
> no permissions in the destination dir, it means that the rsync deletes the
> original files, and after failing to copy the files from /tmp to the
> destination - it deletes the files from there as well...
>
> I tried to find solutions such as --delete-after, but in the bottom line
> nothing helps.
>
> Any idea for a good solution inside rsync capabilities ?
>
> Regards,
> Shushu
>
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