rsync - Jun 2009 - --remove-source-files

Hello all,

	I am using rsync  version 3.0.3  protocol version 30, and I was
wondering if I could use --remove-source-files option in this fashion:

I use a crontab to dayly backup data,
something like: 

rsync -tai --remove-source-files --ignore-existing --no-g --no-o --no-p
user@source:operativo/almacen/{ESP05/recorte/*.tar,EU/recorte/*.tar}
/media/BACKUP3_PROMES10/PROMES10km/

and I check the output status to send me an e-mail if there is an error, 
but I do not consider error the fact that maybe there are no new files to
backup.

?Is there any way to specify that rsync should not report an error if it finds
no files to backup?

Thank you very much in advance,

C?sar.

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:08:26PM +0000, C?sar Tejeda Hern?ndez
wrote:
> rsync -tai --remove-source-files --ignore-existing --no-g --no-o --no-p
> user@source:operativo/almacen/{ESP05/recorte/*.tar,EU/recorte/*.tar}
/media/BACKUP3_PROMES10/PROMES10km/
> [...]
> ?Is there any way to specify that rsync should not report an error if it
finds no files to backup?
Your shell is probably including the raw wildcards when they don't match
anything, so you should be using include/exclude options instead of the
wildcards.  For instance:

rsync -rti --remove-source-files --ignore-existing --include=*.tar --exclude=* \
user@source:operativo/almacen/{ESP05,EU}/recorte/
/media/BACKUP3_PROMES10/PROMES10km/

..wayne..