Re: Rsync behaviour on harddisc crash

2010-03-18 Thread Linux Expert
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Mac User FR wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to use conditional expressions from sh with a smaller > footprint than rsync --list to check if the directory exists? > I think on something like: > > -d file > True if file exists and is a directory. > > (sou

Re: Rsync behaviour on harddisc crash

2010-03-18 Thread Linux Expert
Yes, it'll sync the source directory (now empty) to Server B, deleting everything due to the --delete option. One solution I use is to place a check for the existence of a subdirectory just before the rsync command in the script. This was you can make rsync contingent on the existence of that sub