Re: Unwanted deletion of remote files

Joe, I hesitate to suggest anything to a developer.  As I said to Chris, I 
once said that something (I think in Gnucash) would be "easy to implement" 
and quite rightly, got told where to go.

But could .sitecopyrc call a script to do what Chris wants?  I can see no 
difficulty in writing a script that calls both sitecopy and wget in turn, but 
calling wget from sitecopy may be attractive to some.

Doug L.

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:59 pm, Joe Orton wrote:
> 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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