XPost: uk.comp.os.linux   
   From: dan@djph.net   
      
   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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