rsync - Jan 2005 - suggestion: "user delete"

dear rsync developers:

I use rsync as a convenient synchronization tool.  I know it was not 
made therefore, but it is very convenient.   the only drawback I see is 
that the delete option is "harsh"---if I edit on machine A, and then 
forget that A is the updated machine, an rsync pull from machine B will 
delete my new files on A (if I use --delete).   most of the time, this 
is what I want, some of the time I screw up.  what I would really like 
to be able to specify is my own version of "rm".  (it could rename
file
x to be x~ instead of deleting it; or copy it somewhere to /tmp/; or 
whatever.)

this may be easy to implement---a command-line option "---use-rm=" and
a
system call instead of an unlink call.

possible?

sincerely,

/iaw

Hi,

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, ivo welch wrote:
> dear rsync developers:
> 
> I use rsync as a convenient synchronization tool.  I know it was not made
> therefore, but it is very convenient.   the only drawback I see is that the
> delete option is "harsh"---if I edit on machine A, and then
forget that A is
> the updated machine, an rsync pull from machine B will delete my new files
on
> A (if I use --delete).   most of the time, this is what I want, some of the
> time I screw up.  what I would really like to be able to specify is my own
> version of "rm".  (it could rename file x to be x~ instead of
deleting it; or
> copy it somewhere to /tmp/; or whatever.)
> 
> this may be easy to implement---a command-line option
"---use-rm=" and a
> system call instead of an unlink call.
> 
> possible?
Necessary?
We already have --backup-dir= which indeed can preserve all the "to be 
deleted" files.

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)