Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>__/ [ Captain Dondo ] on Tuesday 16 May 2006 03:18 \__
>> On Mon, 15 May 2006 21:52:48 -0400, CBFalconer wrote:
>>
>>> Captain Dondo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything like an rsync move?
>>>>
>>>> I want to safely move files across a network; once the receiving
>>>> end has verified that the copy has been received, I need for it to
>>>> be deleted on the source....
>>>>
>>>> This needs to be automated, as the source computer has no user
>>>> interface at all....
>>>
>>> What defines 'safely'? You might send the file, have the receiver
>>> compute an MD5sum on it and return that. If that matches the
>>> locally computed MD5sum delete the source.
>>
>> That's exactly the algorithm I had in mind...
>>
>>> Write a script.
>>
>> I'm lazy. :-) Actually, I was hoping someone might have incorporated this
>> into an rsync-type app.... Space is limited on my source computer, so the
>> fewer discrete apps I have the better....
>>
>> --Yan
>rsync -r /my-warez you@safe-haven:/my-treasure-spot; rm -rf /my-warez; echo
>'aye aye, sir!'
>Assumes rsync coughs out no errors in the process, so add a condition.
Precisely. You could do && instead of ; after the rsync command, but I
suspect he would want a bit more guarentee that the transfers really
happened than that. I think I would run rsync twice and the second time use
the md5 check (-I) on all files.
man rsync option -I
>Best wishes,
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