Hi Matthias, Thanks for the reply. The dot files are the ones considered somehow as temp files by curlftp and thus I had to use the -T flag to redirect the temps to a local folder. The inplace flag is what I'm looking for, I'll take a look at that. Regards,
On 28/01/14 10:20, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 28.01.2014 08:35, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have to sync two directories and one is an ftp mount. I had to set a >> different tmp dir as tmp files are not allowed in ftp mounts so I see no >> point in copying things to a temp dir if they won't be used for the >> transfer. >> Is there any way to eliminate the use of a tmp dir? If not, could it be >> a feature request? > rsync doesn't use a tmp-directory by default. The default is to > make it a "."-file with an additions random extension to the filename. > > So in your case there should be a commandline (rsync.conf?) option set > that does that (If i read the man-page correctly, it's -T/--temp-dir). > Just remove it and rsync falls back to default behaviour. > > If you don't want tmp-files at all, with "--inplace" you instruct rsync > to change files "inplace", but you should read the man-page for the > gotchas. > > > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
