Getting list of files transferred using File::RsyncP

cengineer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I have a storage server where data is updated on an hourly basis. I'm using File::RsyncP on a remote server to collect the new data for processing. I want to get the list of files transferred so that I can process only the new files, but I'm having trouble getting this listing. It looks like it can be done with File::RsyncP::FileList, but I'm not quite sure how to use it in my code.

Any ideas? Thank you much in advance!

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::RsyncP;

my $rs = File::RsyncP->new({
                logLevel   => 1,
                rsyncCmd   => "/bin/rsync",
                rsyncArgs  => [
                        "--numeric-ids",
                        "--perms",
                        "--owner",
                        "--group",
                        "--devices",
                        "--links",
                        "--ignore-times",
                        "--block-size=700",
                        "--relative",
                        "--recursive",
                        "-v",
                    ],
            });

my $port = 873;
my $host = "storage.server";
my $module = "reports";
my $destDirectory = "/home/incoming/";

$rs->serverConnect($host, $port);
$rs->serverService($module, 0, 0, 0);
$rs->serverStart(1, ".");
$rs->go($destDirectory);
$rs->serverClose;
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Re: Getting list of files transferred using File::RsyncP by Anno (Deacon) on Mar 23, 2007 at 16:03 UTC
At a glance `File::RsyncP::Filelist` doesn't look like the right tool. It uses an internal format derived from the standard `rsync`. If it were a standard `rsync`, I'd set the logging options to list transferred files and parse them from the log. If that approach is applicable to `File::RsyncP`, I don't know. Anno	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Getting list of files transferred using File::RsyncP by zentara (Archbishop) on Mar 23, 2007 at 15:39 UTC
In case you can't find a way with rsync, maybe try dar . I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum	[reply]
Re: Getting list of files transferred using File::RsyncP by andyford (Curate) on Mar 23, 2007 at 14:48 UTC
Sorry if I'm missing something, but why not just look at the time stamps on the files to determine what to process? non-Perl: Andy Ford	[reply]
Re^2: Getting list of files transferred using File::RsyncP by cengineer (Pilgrim) on Mar 23, 2007 at 15:24 UTC
The timestamps are kept from when the file was created originally, not from when they were transferred to the storage server or to the processing server. Basically, the file creation time is not an indicator of when the file was received.	[reply]


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