Linux – Getting rsync to move file from source to destination

You are probably running rsync like this:

rsync -a dir/ remote:/dir/

The -a option according to the documentation is equivalent to: -rlptgoD

      -a, --archive    archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)

You probably want to remove the -o and -g options:

      -o, --owner                 preserve owner (super-user only)
      -g, --group                 preserve group

So instead your rsync command should look something like this:

rsync -rlptD dir/ remote:/dir/

Or as @glglgl points out:

rsync -a --no-o --no-g dir/ remote:/dir/

The remaining options in use are:

      -r, --recursive             recurse into directories
      -l, --links                 copy symlinks as symlinks
      -p, --perms                 preserve permissions
      -t, --times                 preserve modification times
      -D                          same as --devices --specials
          --devices               preserve device files (super-user only)
          --specials              preserve special files

Something like this?

rsync /logs/*.$(date '+%Y%m%d').log ArchiveServer:/archive/ServerA/logs/$(date '+%Y')/$(date '+%m')/

Update:

Right, so the date is already in the log filename. I should have read more slowly.

I don't think you would do this directly with rsync, but would wrap things up in a script. If you want to bang things through in a first run, something like:

for daysago in `seq 0 90`
do
  rsync /logs/*.$(date '+%Y%m%d' -d "$daysago days ago").log ArchiveServer:/archive/ServerA/logs/$(date '+%Y' -d "$daysago days ago")/$(date '+%m' -d "$daysago days ago")/
done

You can stick an "echo" in front of the rsync command in the loop to see if that's what you want.

Whatever you do will incorporate those elements, though other people will be more clever and elegant about the shell scripting than me.