rsync with overlay tree

Marian Marinov
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 05:22:40 -0000

On 03/31/2016 07:40 AM, tomr wrote:
> I maintain a directory structure containing dirs and files that I regularly
push to ~50 hosts, which are divided into 3 groups that have slightly different
needs (minor mods in a couple of files).
>
> So ideally I would have 4 directories:
>     /path/to/sync/common/   <- common files
>     /path/to/sync/group1/   <- group1 specific only
>     /path/to/sync/group2/   <- group2 specific only
>     /path/to/sync/group3/   <- group3 specific only
>
> Then I'd run an rsync like:
>     rsync -av --overlay /path/to/sync/groupN \
>      /path/to/sync/common remotehost:
>
> Thinking in terms of a list of files to be transferred, I would like:
> - Anything present in common/ added to the file list; then
> - Anything present in groupN/ added to the list, clobbering if applicable
(regardless of mtime)
> - The destination directory to show no sign of the common / overlay
structure

I really like the idea, however I have one question. How is rsync going to
decide which files to be present in the final list?
I mean, should rsync always prefer the files from the overlay dir instead of the
files in the common dir, no matter is they differ or not?


>
> I suspect I could populate the list myself and use
'--files-from=<LIST>' but I would rather have rsync work it out if
possible.  If all else fails, I will do the merge locally first.
>
>     TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
>     cp -r /path/to/sync/common/* $TEMPDIR
>     cp -r /path/to/sync/groupN/* $TEMPDIR
>     rsync -av $TEMPDIR/* remotehost:
>     rm -r $TEMPDIR
>
> Thanks in advance,
> tom
>
>
>

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