Hi Folks;
I've already created a case and submitted a patch in the rsync bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8367
I'm posting here to reach a wider audience.
The use case is one where rsync is being used to replicate files from a source
to a destination, with the --remove-source-files flag being used. The files on
the source are created sequentially, based on the file existing or not.
Essentially, software creates a files named 1.tif, 2.tif, 3.tif, and so on,
based on the existance of the files. If rsync moves the files from the source to
the destination, then the files 1.tif, 2.tif, 3.tif, etc., no longer exist on
the source, so the software on the source re-starts it's numbering. Then,
when rsync is run again either: (a) it'll sync the files up, which
essentially means all prior data was lost, since they are totally different
files, or (b) if --ignore-existing is used, the files back up on the source
(good in that there's no data loss, bad that the files don't move).
The attached patch is a first attempt at adding a --move-existing functionality
to rsync. It does not honour --dry-run and probably a ton of other use cases. It
also uses strftime and some other functions which I see are in IFDEF blocks in
other areas. The new filename generator should probably be in util.c, and its
logging is ugly right now. It's not well documented (aka no man page entry).
It will rename a file in this format:
SOURCE: filename.ext
DEST POST RENAME: filename_2011-08-09-13-44-22-1.ext
It's somewhat contrary to rsync individual file sync, since it suggests we
specifically don't want to sync a particular file. That said, it is in line
with the concept of wanting to sync a (poorly) created series of files in a safe
manner.
Thanks,
Devin Nate
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