Hi!
On 2009-11-28 at 03:43 +0100 Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 00:06 +0100, Stefan Nowak wrote:
Is there a possibility, so that --max-size AFFECTS --delete actually?
Situation where it makes sense: Imagine that I had the rule --max-
size=1M and my backup-storage is satisfying. But one day it ain't
enough anymore, and I decide to lower down to --max-size=512K. The
files larger than 512K at the destination DO NOT GET DELETED!
Currently the only solution is to rm -r /my/backup/* and then start
the process again with the new size limitations.
Rsync currently does not have such an option.
The content of this newsgroup post, makes me think, that in earlier
versions --max-size may have once AFFECTED --delete:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.rsync.general/12024
That thread was about a different issue: avoiding the deletion of
destination files that don't match the --min-size or --max-size
transfer
rules.
Does this idea mean, that regardless of the source file list
(resulting from excludes/includes and size limitations), that files at
the destination get deleted if they don't match the size limitations?
For my particular interest I want this behaviors:
- If the source file is gone, delete the destination file.
- If the source file is not within the size limitation (min or max),
delete the destination file (even if that is an older version which is
still within the size limit!). The destination shall gear after the
source! If the destination is newer, keep it (--update logic).
- If the source file is later again within the size limit, copy it to
the destination again.
Is it now clearer? Do I have options? Or not?
The same issue for file-type transfer rules was:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4378
But all of these issues are about making the transfer rules behave
more
like ordinary exclude rules (optionally at least), so it may make
sense
to deal with all of them at once. I have generalized bug 4378
accordingly.
Thanks Matt, for issueing the bug.
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