I think I must be missing something. If source and dest are the same
place rsync shouldn't do anything unless it it responding to changes
happening at the same time. For example, when I do 'rsync -vain
--remove-source-files /tmp/ /tmp/' rsync does nothing.
On 10/17/22 23:12, Sridhar Sarnobat via rsync wrote:
>> why not avoid using "--remove-source-files" and delete files
manually/via extra step afterwards
Multiple reasons. Among them:
1) my jobs run a long time and there are a lot of them. Trying to
remember what I did over ssh (where history doesn't get saved) is an
extra cognitive load and the system is in a transient state (I've ended
up with duplicate files unless I do the extra work later - potentially
much later depending on the size of the job). I may also have multiple
rsync commands running in separate terminals.
2) I am managing a lot of large files, and my collection of disks
doesn't have 2x free space.
3) 2 operations instead of 1 gives more room to make a mistake.
This is a workaround that I can occasionally use, and you could even say
"why not just use ext4magic?" to recover accidentally deleted files etc.
Regardless, the semantics of deleting source files without leaving one
copy of your files intact should never happen right?
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