Batch mode scenario ("use case")

[Matt McCutchen]

On 9/9/07, Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   Question:  How can Wer use the batch file /e/cmds/foo to recover
>              c_a in a timely manner (recall /e/gold is 200 Gigs and
>              Wer cannot wait to rebuild the entire
>              /f/new_home/wer/work;  and he needs c_a immediately)?

Rsync currently doesn't provide a good way to do this.  It would be
great if sender filters could be used to control which file-list
entries from the batch file are processed.  For now, a hackish way to
quickly recover a subdirectory is to --read-batch to a destination
that has been set up specially so that the user cannot write to
anything in the destination except the subdirectory to be recovered.

Matt