Hello. I'm a long-time rsync user, but I've encountered a case today and I just can't seem to get rsync to do the right thing.
I want to mirror a directory A on server www1.example.com to a directory B on www2.example.com. The directory A contains very large but essentially read-only files. A server process on www1.example.com periodically creates new large files and deletes old ones. I want to synchronize the directories roughly every ten minutes. It's important that a file in B only becomes "visible" (that is, has the same name as a file in A) when the two files contain the exact same content. Files that no longer exist in A should be deleted from B. An initial pass: www1$ rsync -avz --delete-after /A/ www2.example.com:/B/ This works, but the transfers are not resumable for some reason. If I ^C the rsync process and then run it again, I see partial files left in B, and rsync ignores these the next time I run the command. I've seen this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48298/can-rsync-resume-after-being-interrupted But, quite frankly, I feel like I've tried every combination of flags and can't get the behaviour I'm looking for. Either rsync copies the files in-place (violating the invariant that a file in B should should not be visible by the name it had in A before the contents match), or it places partial files in the same directory (or in a separate .rsync-partial directory) but then ignores them next time the transfer runs. Can someone spell it out for me? Which flags do I need? -- Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com
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