rsync - Dec 2004 - How can we avoid partially transfered file

Is it possible to ideintify the file which are partially transfered from
the remote machine. We want to avoid the partially transferred file to be
in the target machine. If any failure is happen at the time of rsync
transfer then that file should be transferred in the next time rathter
than current transfer.

Please suggest how do we go about this..

Regards,
Bala

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:35:38AM +0530, kbala@midascomm.com
wrote:
> We want to avoid the partially transferred file to be in the target
> machine.
Then avoid the --partial option (and also -P, which implies it).  You
should also upgrade to 2.6.3 on both sides of the transfer so that a
misconstructed file will not be saved on the destination side (older
versions kept the erroneous file on the destination and tried to resend
it at the end of the transfer).

Also note that you can use the --partial-dir option (new to 2.6.3) to
control where partial files are put, so an alternative to avoiding the
--partial option would be to specify --partial-dir=.rsync-part (for
example) and rsync would auto-manage the subdirectory ".rsync-part" in
any destination directory where a partially transferred file occurs.

..wayne..