I used this rsync command:
rsync -az --only-write-batch=tmp.rsync --inplace --remove-source-files
--include='*' --include='*/' tmp/ nonexistent_dir
which created file tmp.rsync.sh containing this rsync command:
rsync --filter=._- -az --read-batch=tmp.rsync --inplace
--remove-source-files ${1:-nonexistent_dir} <<'#E#
which when executed gives the error:
--read-batch cannot be used with --remove-source-files
and furthermore, the source directory, tmp/, still contains its files.
rsync seems to be incorrectly including --remove-source-files into the rsync.sh
file and ignoring it at the sending side.
My rsync is: rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30
My system is: CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
What I wanted to do was try using rsync as an archive tool, like tar/gzip.
Tar/gzip compresses the archive after it is created. I wanted each file in the
archive to be compressed before adding it to the archive, and further I wanted
the files to be deleted as soon as they were added to the archive, because I'm
trying to compress a very large directory in-place on an almost-full device.
It seemed like the above command would do the job, and in fact it does work,
except for (lack of) deletion of the sending-side file immediately after it is
added to the batch (archive) file.
It would be nice if there were a --remove-source-dirs argument also, to remove
directories on the source as well as files.
I don't know how possible or impossible this might be with rsync as it is
currently structured, but it would be nice if the batch file created by
--write-batch could be used as the destination device also. I.e., if I do the
command shown above and partway through it fails for some reason (say the
system is shut down), it would be great if the batch file were intact and
usable with its contents as they are up to that point, and if the rsync command
could be restarted and it would use that batch file as the destination, and
continue adding to it. In short, what I want is an rsync where the
destination, instead of being a directory tree, is a single file that retains
the compressed form of data used by rsync to send it.
ted
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