On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Anthony Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > I am oten doing something like this ....
> >
> > cp something-beta-1.iso something-beta-2.iso
> >
> > Then rsync --progress --partial --stats --block-size=8192
> > somewhere::blah/something-beta-2.iso .
> >
> > When I want to go from beta-1 to beta-2.. and usually.. if all goes well..
> > this works..
> >
> > HOWEVER..
> >
> > A).. I hate having to copy that ISO (for no reason too)..
>
> You don't have to .. just create a hard link .. rsync will break the link
> if the transfer completes.
Umm.. Hang on.. no.. it would modify the same file.. and thus.. truncate
it.. if it aborted early.. not a fix sorry..
(Hard links are just like two directory entries pointing to the SAME
data.. changes occur to the SAME data their pointing to.)
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