rsync - Jan 2010 - temp name for destination directory, move in place after successfull complete?

Hello everyone,

In --link-dest/--copy-dest/--compare-dest modes, I'd like to distinguish
between destination directories that have been completely rsynced and
the ones that are only partially synced because of a network failure.

In short, I'd like to mimic the behaviour rync has on individual files
(building them as .filename-random and then renaming them to filename)
for the whole destination directory.

Of course, I could instruct rsync to create .destination-random rather
than just destination. However, I think I cannot rename the temporary
directory after successfull completion via the rsync protocol (this
would need shell access or a mounted filesystem, both of which I want to
avoid).

Is there any way to do this magic with rsync, or maybe is there any
option that removes the whole destination again if something went wrong?

Best regards,

Andreas

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at
schildbach.de>wrote:
> In short, I'd like to mimic the behaviour rync has on individual
> files (building them as .filename-random and then renaming them to
> filename) for the whole destination directory.
>
The only thing rsync currently supports is --delay-updates.  This option
makes rsync place completed files into a dot-subdir of your choice in each
directory of the transfer, and then, when the transfer is complete, it
renames all the changed files into place in rapid succession.  Other
options, such as using the support/atomic-rsync script, require you to be
running commands on the receiving side the transfer.

..wayne..
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