currently I have an troublesome problem. I needed quite a time for identifying this problem. Anyhow that's what I'm doing:I collect log files with rsync from multiple servers to archive them. Its important to preserve the time attributes so I'm using the archive-mode of rsync. But in some cases this leads to some errors.The problem is that the log files are rotating (changing) on the servers.So current logs that are in use are named like test.log (they are not getting rsynced). After some time and/or a specific file size the log file is rotating. Meaning test.log is renamed to test.log.1. Now when test.log is rotated again, test.log.1 is renamed to test.log.2 and test.log is renamed to test.log.1.I think when test.log would go directly to test.log.2, there would be no problem. But that's something I cannot change.And exactly this rotation happens somehow (sometimes) exactly when I'm rsyncing. So rsync get all the time-attributes of the files, then the rotation happens and then rsync starts to collect the logfiles. But now for example test.log.1 isn't the same file anymore. But rsync gets it anyway. In the end rsync can't delete the file on the server because it changed (I see that in the rsync debug). I hope that explanation makes sense.So maybe a small process flow:rsync getting a file list with time-attributes (test.log.1 and test.log.2) (that's what I believe is happening, I don't know exactly how 'rsync' works)the logs are rotating (test.log.1 is now named test.log.2 and .2 now .3)rsync starts collecting (test.log.1 and test.log.2)rsync can't delete the specific fileSo is there any option that prevents that?
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