On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 12:43, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:18:40AM -0600, Dan Mack wrote:
It happened to me too. Luckily I caught it before all was lost with a
ctrl-c.
There is a real simple way to prevent the damage --delete and a bad
mirrir can do. In the directory where your ccoker tree is, *before*
doing an rsync, simply make a shadow copy using hard links:
$ cd /path_to_cooker
$ cp -la cooker cooker.bak
$ rsync --madness
This creates a complete mirror of your tree before rsync can destroy
it. But it does so without taking up any additional space (before
rsyncing). Once you are successfully rsynced, remove the shadow with
rm -r. If rsync destroys your cooker tree, you can restore it
easily and try again later.
Ack, that works. I've just set the --max-delete arg on rsync something
comfortably small so I only lose a little bit from now on.
Dan
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