02-14-2008
Unfortunately I've never used rsync, but I think no program could determine if a file is incomplete or not. An "incomplete file" is a concept which implies knowing the contents and the meaning of the files involved in the transfer.
I think you could easily implement the third solution even if you use wildcards. Simply "expand" the wildcards before sending and generate a flag file for every entry. Then, after rsyncing the data files (with wildcards) you have to copy all the flag files.
You could for example generate empty files called:
log3225.flag
log3228.flag
log3230.flag
...
and so on, and then transfer all the *.flag files to the remote site.
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MAKEDBZ(8) InterNetNews Documentation MAKEDBZ(8)
NAME
makedbz - Rebuild dbz files
SYNOPSIS
makedbz [-io] [-f filename] [-s size]
DESCRIPTION
makedbz rebuilds dbz(3) database. The default name of the text file is pathdb/history; to specify a different name, use the -f flag.
OPTIONS
-f filename
If the -f flag is used, then the database files are named "filename.dir", "filename.index", and "filename.hash". If the -f flag is not
used, then a temporary link to the name "history.n" is made and the database files are written as "history.n.index" , "history.n.hash"
and "history.n.dir".
-i To ignore the old database, use the -i flag. Using the -o or -s flags implies the -i flag.
-o If the -o flag is used, then the link is not made and any existing history files are overwritten. If the old database exists, makedbz
will use it to determine the size of the new database.
-s size
makedbz will also ignore any old database if the -s flag is used to specify the approximate number of entries in the new database.
Accurately specifying the size is an optimization that will create a more efficient database. Size is measured in key-value pairs
(i.e. lines). (The size should be the estimated eventual size of the file, typically the size of the old file.)
For more information, see the discussion of dbzfresh and dbzsize in dbz(3).
HISTORY
Written by Katsuhiro Kondou <kondou@nec.co.jp> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien Elie.
$Id: makedbz.pod 8584 2009-08-20 21:54:07Z iulius $
SEE ALSO
dbz(3), history(5).
INN 2.5.2 2009-09-11 MAKEDBZ(8)