Fwd: [3.1.3] --remove-source-files $SRC/ $SRC/ - erases all files

[Sridhar Sarnobat]

90% of my data losses are caused by rsync'ing from dir A to dir A
(accidental incorrect copy and paste, or where dir B is a symlink to dir
A). The source gets erased unintentionally.

It may seem dumb but when you get really long commands and really long file
paths it will happen a 1-2 times a year when I'm doing it dozens/hundreds
of times every week.

*Is there an existing mechanism to protect against this?* rsync should
logically never erase all copies of data.

I know I can backup files (which I do for my smaller drives), or create
wrapper scripts but I'm not asking about those. I don't think adopting
--dry-run is practical being such a heavy user (and moreover, it's unlikely
to warn what will happen).

I'm not a C developer so I probably can't do this myself but if anyone's
encouraging me to then I'd give it a shot.


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