On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:52:12PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 07/22/2010 04:44 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
If all mirrors would add /**/.* to their rsync exclude list, we wouldn't see these sorts of things.
please dont do that - there are valid and required dot files inthe mirror. eg: .discinfo .treeinfo
If everyone uses --delay-updates --delete --delete-after, then rsync puts the temporary files in .~tmp~/ directories, and it automatically excludes those temporary files from the rsync transfer.
--delay-updates This option puts the temporary file from each updated file into a holding directory until the end of the transfer, at which time all the files are renamed into place in rapid succession. This attempts to make the updating of the files a little more atomic. By default the files are placed into a directory named “.~tmp~” in each file’s destination directory, but if you’ve specified the --partial-dir option, that directory will be used instead. See the comments in the --partial-dir section for a discussion of how this “.~tmp~” dir will be excluded from the transfer, and what you can do if you want rsync to cleanup old “.~tmp~” dirs that might be lying around. Conflicts with --inplace and --append.