move for rebalancing

[Christian Goll]

Dear BeeGFS community,
as we are so happy with our BeeGFS system we continued to extend it
during the last years, which obviously lead to a great imbalance on the
targets. As one user could move a large bunch of files, this would
rebalance the system. As 'mv' has no option for that, I wonder if
anybody of you knows a handy linux command which recursively copies file
after file and deletes the source file after the copy. 'cp -r FOO BAAR
&& rm -rf FOO' is not a good option, as this would lead to TBs of data
during the process.

kind regards,
Christian

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[Tilo Buschmann]

Christian,

Have a look into rsync with the option "--remove-source-files"

For example:

rsync --remove-source-files -a FOO BAR

If you need verbose output, try:

rsync --remove-source-files -avh --progress FOO BAR

Regards,

Tilo

[Christian Goll]

Hello Tilo,
thanks for your fast reply. Unfortunately this command deletes the files, but leaves the empty directory tree. So you have to use

rsync --remove-source-files -avh --progress FOO BAR

rm -r FOO

kind regards,
Christian

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