[Server-devel] [PATCH] postprocess.py gets fleshed out, and incrontab tweaks

[martin.langhoff at gmail.com]

From: Martin Langhoff <martin at laptop.org>

postprocess.py now provides hardlinked timestamped
directories, and maintains a symlink pointing to
the latest transferred directory.

The timestamped directories are maintained with a resolution
of the nearest minute - we don't expect to have more
than one per hour.

The incrond crontab gets updated to deal well with rsync
clients too. To work well with rsync, the rsync client must
use the -T option to avoid creating tempfiles in the monitored
directory.

Strangely, incrond cannot handle comments on its tab files, so
we workaround that for the moment. This is known as bug 173 in the
incrond bugtracker (bts.aiken.cz).
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 server/incron-ds-backup.comments |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 server/incron-ds-backup.comments

diff --git a/server/incron-ds-backup.comments b/server/incron-ds-backup.comments
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6edb8d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/incron-ds-backup.comments
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+## NOTE: incrond v0.5.5 cannot cope with
+## comments in its "tab" files. So we
+## put them here, until incrontab gets
+## better at this :-)
+
+# We monitor create and move to, because
+# while touch/echo will trigger IN_CREATE,
+# rsync transfers (use the -T flag!) will
+# create the file in a tempdir and then mv
+# it into place. Again: use rsync -T /tmp
+#                     : martin at laptop.org
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