Bug 10963 - rsync to multiple destinations
Summary: rsync to multiple destinations
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.6
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2014-11-25 22:58 UTC by Dave Yost
Modified: 2020-07-26 08:15 UTC (History)
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Description Dave Yost 2014-11-25 22:58:55 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Dave Yost

        

        
        

        
          2014-11-25 23:00:36 UTC
        

      






Something like this would be useful:
  rsync foo s1: --add-destinations s2:dir s3:dir
or
  rsync foo s1: --to s1: s2:dir s3:~

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Kevin Korb

        

        
        

        
          2014-11-25 23:11:01 UTC
        

      






These would be separate rsync (and ssh) connections.  What use case would justify bundling them together into a single rsync session?  The only benefit over multiple exections of rsync would be a lack of per-session error handling.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Dave Yost

        

        
        

        
          2014-11-25 23:28:24 UTC
        

      






What I'm after is an argument syntax that supports copying to multiple destinations.

It's fine by me if rsync executes a multiple-destination command via multiple, sequential copies.

I am not advocating an incompatible change that would require a --to argument even for a single destination.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Kevin Korb

        

        
        

        
          2014-11-26 00:35:18 UTC
        

      






If you want to run them in parallel then use gnu parallel.  It would keep the specified unmber of jobs running until it runs out of new jobs.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 5
        

        
          Dave Yost

        

        
        

        
          2014-11-26 02:14:59 UTC
        

      






This is not about running them in parallel.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 6
        

        
          Wayne Davison

        

        
        

        
          2020-07-26 08:15:00 UTC
        

      






I'd suggest creating a helper script that then does a loop and runs rsync several times.