How to set absolute path for rsync?

[Joe Qiao]

Dear experts,



I would like get your help for the issue with --partial-dir=*absolute path.*



I’m trying to use rsync to send big file to server and config
--partial-dir=*absolute
path* since I want to store temp partial file in /tmp/ directory and keep
the destination folder clear.



My server is joe28, client is joe27. And here is the config on server.



root at joe28:~# cat /etc/rsyncd.conf

# Global settings

address = 10.148.34.28

numeric ids = yes

uid = 0

read only = no

reverse lookup = no

dont compress = *

timeout = 10

[JOE]

        path = /home/joe/rsync

        comment = Joe's rsync test



Sending big file from joe27 to joe28:



root at joe27:~# ls -l /home/joe/rsync/flash_image

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 766028824 Aug 15 15:23 /home/joe/rsync/flash_image



root at joe27:~# rsync -a --delete --delay-updates --no-relative
--partial-dir=/tmp /home/joe/rsync/ rsync://10.148.34.28:873/JOE -P

building file list ...

2 files to consider

./

flash_image

   766028824 100%  108.69MB/s    0:00:06 (xfer#1, to-check=0/2)



sent 766122429 bytes  received 30 bytes  61289796.72 bytes/sec

total size is 766028824  speedup is 1.00



However, I still see the partial file in the local directory, but not in
/tmp which I configured.



root at joe28:~# watch --interval=1 ls -al /home/joe/rsync/ /tmp/flash*

Every 1.0s: ls -al /home/joe/rsync/ /tmp/flash*
Tue Aug 15 15:35:55 2017



ls: cannot access /tmp/flash*: No such file or directory

/home/joe/rsync/:

total 77064

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root        4096 Aug 15 15:35 .

drwxr-xr-x 32 joe  joe         4096 Aug 15 15:01 ..

-rw-------  1 root nogroup 78905344 Aug 15 15:35 .flash_image.xlIBqo



And finally I saw the “tmp” folder is created on server. That is not my
expected.



Every 1.0s: ls -al /home/joe/rsync/ /tmp/flash*
Tue Aug 15 15:36:05 2017



ls: cannot access /tmp/flash*: No such file or directory

/home/joe/rsync/:

total 748092

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root         4096 Aug 15 15:14 .

drwxr-xr-x 32 joe  joe          4096 Aug 15 15:01 ..

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    766028824 Aug 15 15:23 flash_image

drwx------  2 root nogroup      4096 Aug 15 15:36 tmp



Would you please give some suggestions? Appreciate the help!



BTW. I tried with --temp-dir but same result. Rsync version is 3.1.2.



Regards,

-Joe
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