Re: rsync Question

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From	Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
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Subject	Re: rsync Question
Date	Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:49:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-10-21, Java Jive wrote:
> Having made a slight cock-up, I want to use rsync to move all the files 
> that exist on one server but not the other into a separate heirarchy.
>
> More fully:
>
> I have two identical servers, the second of which rsyncs itself from the 
> other overnight.  This morning, due to an oversight, I put a load of 
> files into a directory structure that were intended to go into a 
> subfolder of it.  What I want to do is rsync from the second server to 
> the first and move files that only exist on the first into a directory 
> tree elsewhere on the server, so that then I can move that extraneous 
> tree back into the originally intended subfolder.  Something like this:

rsync doesn't 'move'.

*IF* you've already moved the relevant files from /src/wrongdir to
/src/correctdir ; then you can rsync with "--delete" to delete those
files on /dest/ that are no longer in /src/ (i.e. 'got moved from
/src/wrong/ to /src/correct/').

I would definitely do the --dry-run, and read it *very* closely, to make
sure the rsync isn't removing more than I expect.

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    Re: rsync Question Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-10-21 15:35 +0100
      Re: rsync Question Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-10-21 15:37 +0000
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          Re: rsync Question Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-10-21 19:52 +0000
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