On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:15:45PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > When rsync dir_A to dir_B, I hope I wont make any change to the original > dir_B unless the rsync procedure end withour errors, therefore, I hope > there's somethig like > > rsync -av dir_A dir_B_tmp && \ > mv dir_B dir_B.bkup && > mv dir_B_tmp dir_B > > This small script can ensure the minimal change time between 2 versions > of archive. Is this built in the native rsync function? Do I have to > write scripts myself?
You'd have to write a script like that yourself, but you'll want to use a new option which should go into the next release of rsync called --link-dest which will comparison against the files in dir_B and hard link in all the ones that haven't changed. Meanwhile the --compare-dest option does almost what you want but doesn't do the linking in of the unchanged files. See the rsync man page for details. - Dave Dykstra be able to do comparisons against existing the existing -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
