# Thanks to http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups_2010.html for the
# idea.
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Simon Ruderich
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Simon Ruderich
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
mkdir current
rsync \
--verbose --itemize-changes --human-readable \
- --archive --hard-links --numeric-ids --one-file-system \
+ --archive --hard-links --sparse --numeric-ids --one-file-system \
--link-dest="$dest" \
"$@" current \
-&& mv current "$target"
+|| {
+ # Try to remove "current" without changing the exit code. In case the
+ # connection failed without transferring any files, we want the next
+ # backup to be able to run.
+ code=$?
+ rmdir current 2>/dev/null || true
+ exit $code
+}
+mv current "$target"