Re: Unwanted deletion of remote files

Hiya,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:44:01PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I think I have found another problem with sitecopy. There are certain 
> remote files that I would like sitecopy not to modify in any way (e.g. 
> website access logs). If possible, I would like sitecopy to download them 
> but not upload them, but I can't find any documented way to achieve that.
> 
> Worse, I cannot make Sitecopy not delete them from the remote site. I have 
> already lost all my access logs, due to my own complacency in running 
> sitecopy -u.

I don't understand exactly what you are doing at the moment.  Are you 
using sitecopy --fetch and --synch to download the access logs? If so, 
why?  Why not just use a separate tool to download the logs somewhere 
completely different?  If you avoid doing a --fetch on the site, then 
sitecopy won't ever know the logs exist, so it won't ever try to delete 
them.

No, sitecopy doesn't support any mode where files can be deleted locally 
but not removed remotely.  Adding more such options would just be more 
confusing.

> I don't want it to touch the archive directory, nor site/logs, but I can't 
> make it not delete all those files. My configuration is:

The fact that the "logs" directory in your site is picked up by a 
--fetch despite the "exclude /logs" configuration is a bug which will be 
fixed at some point, if that helps.

joe
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