Re: [feature request] Modify --backup option to make backups on source side, too

2007-11-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 22:17 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On 10/15/07, Aaron Digulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is for a production system which goes online Q1 2008. Should I use the latest stable version of rsync (2.6.9) or will there be a release of 3.0 until then? Rsync 3.0.0 is in

[feature request] Modify --backup option to make backups on source side, too

2007-10-15 Thread Aaron Digulla
Hello, Can you please modify the backup options to work together with --remove-source-files so I'm able to create a reliable move between hosts script? If --backup is specified, the files to be deleted should be renamed on the source side. If --backup-dir is specified, they should be

Re: [feature request] Modify --backup option to make backups on source side, too

2007-10-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 10/15/07, Aaron Digulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please modify the backup options to work together with --remove-source-files so I'm able to create a reliable move between hosts script? The patch patches/source-backup.diff in the source tree adds an option --source-backup to do

Re: [feature request] Modify --backup option to make backups on source side, too

2007-10-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 10/15/07, Aaron Digulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the input. If this wasn't for a production system, I'd do that :-) Why don't you apply the patch the release version? Because the patch is a quick hack to serve a niche need, so the benefit of saving people who need source backups a

Re: [feature request] Modify --backup option to make backups on source side, too

2007-10-15 Thread Aaron Digulla
Matt McCutchen schrieb: In the same way, I encourage you to test and begin using the source-backup patch now if it suits your needs; if you want the patch added to the main version, you can help make that more likely by improving it. Thanks. I'll try to convince my bosses to see this as

Re: [feature request] Modify --backup option to make backups on source side, too

2007-10-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 10/15/07, Aaron Digulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I'll try to convince my bosses to see this as payment for using rsync :-) I just hope I can find a simple way to build rsync on Windows ... I guess I'll try with Cygwin since I already have that installed and I could build GhostPCL