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

[Roland]

why not avoid using "--remove-source-files" and delete files
manually/via extra step afterwards ?

Am 17.10.22 um 08:59 schrieb Sridhar Sarnobat via rsync:
> 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 yearwhen 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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