--rsync --log-file being ignored?

[2cokes]

Hi,
I think the always present --log-file option is overriding or ignoring the fact that log-file is set in the -r option.
Even with log-file set, the location seems to get put into /tmp.

I somewhat verified this by this hack:

if '--log-file' in options:
            rsync_cmd = "%s %s %s %s" % (RSYNC_EXE, options + ' --quiet --stats --verbose --from0', src + os.sep, dst)
        else:
            rsync_cmd = "%s %s %s %s" % (RSYNC_EXE, options + ' --quiet --stats --verbose --from0 --log-file %s' % rsync_log, src + os.sep, dst)

Which seems to place it to the desired file. Is this by design?

[jbd]

Hi, thank you for opening this issue.

You're right, the log-file option is always added and this is by design. https://github.com/jbd/msrsync#notes. I'm not saying this is particularly intelligent choice, but each spawned rsync process generates it's own log file and the simplest solution was to enforce its location.

Maybe you will be interested in those options ?

-b, --buckets ...     where to put the buckets files (default: auto temporary directory)
-k, --keep            do not remove buckets directory at the end

$ mkdir buckets
$ msrsync --buckets buckets --keep src dest
$ cat buckets/msrsync-RbeOP5/0000/0000/tmp584JTA.log 
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] building file list
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] cd+++++++++ src/
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] cd+++++++++ src/proc/
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Number of files: 2 (dir: 2)
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Number of created files: 2 (dir: 2)
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Number of deleted files: 0
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Number of regular files transferred: 0
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Total file size: 0 bytes
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Literal data: 0 bytes
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Matched data: 0 bytes
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] File list size: 0
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Total bytes sent: 67
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] Total bytes received: 22
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] sent 67 bytes  received 22 bytes  178.00 bytes/sec
2018/12/25 20:59:05 [7191] total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

[2cokes]

Thanks for the clarification! I tracked those options as I was dealing with the logfile as well. Everything is working to spec.