Renamed files and directories

[N.J. van der Horn (Nico)]

David Howe schreef:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>   
>> There are methods to perform efficient updates of large numbers of
>> files and a large amount of data, across simultaneous renames, copies
>> and edits.  But that is the realm of "similarity detection indexing",
>> which is beyond the scope of rsync.  At least with the present design,
>> which doesn't use persistent indexing of any kind.  (This is a feature!)
>>     
>
> I can see that being a lot of work, yes - but in the less complex case
> (where you have "deleted" directories and "new" directories), it might
> be worthwhile to look for exact matches (file+stamp) in the sacrificial
> directories for a mv before they are deleted, which would catch the
> majority of files in a worst-case scenario of the root directories being
> renamed or moved.
>
> I am less worried about individual file renames and/or "missing" the
> opportunity to diff a large file that has been both moved and updated,
> than having to resync multiple gigs of stuff over a slow link, because
> some user renamed a directory.
>   
Agreed. My solution is written in Perl, the lbackup is in Python. I am 
looking for some unity.

Regards, Nico

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