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Reputation: 455

rsync : dont delete few files in source after upload

I want to write a shell script to use rsync to transfer files between folders called source and destination.

Contents of source folder

A
B
C
test1.log
test2.json

I would like to transfer all files from source to destination, and want to delete all source files except test1.log and test2.json

i.e after uploading all files to destination, Content of source folder should be : 

test1.log
test2.json

Contents of destination folder should be :

    A
    B
    C
test1.log
test2.json

I experimented with

rsync -aP --timeout=120 --remove-source-files -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i /id" source [email protected]:/destination_path/ --exclude=test1.log --exclude=test2.json

But in that case, test1.log and test2.json are excluded from uploading itself.

But I want all files to be uploaded to destination, most of them deleted from source after upload, but want to keep few files in source.

Is there any way to do it with rsync?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 880

Answers (1)

AKV
AKV

Reputation: 455

As user1934428 pointed out,if I use --remove-source-files there is no way to keep some files not deleted after transfer. So I ended up in using the below solution, which is not efficient since rsync has to be called twice.

rsync -aP --timeout=120 --remove-source-files -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i /id" source [email protected]:/destination_path/ --exclude=test1.log --exclude=test2.json

rsync -aP --timeout=120 -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i /id" source [email protected]:/destination_path/

Upvotes: 1

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