Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 06:57:07 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync Message-ID: <20080302012707.GA30006@saraswathy.madambakam.org> In-Reply-To: <200803011336.57193.kline@thought.org> References: <20080301021803.GA26930@thought.org> <20080301032550.GA15588@saraswathy.madambakam.org> <200803011336.57193.kline@thought.org>
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On 13:36:56 Mar 01, Gary Kline wrote: > What does the "--delete" do?! I want to make a complete copy of, say, > /usr/home/kline/* from here [tao] to my Ubuntu server, ethos, which has > a "/home" mountpoint--- in otheer words: /home/kline/*. If the > "--delete /usr/home* /home" syntax will let rsync rewrite /usr/home to /home, > then fine. I started using rsync with -avzp but then realized that it would not delete the directories/files I deleted at the source *after* the backup. That is why I added the --delete hoping that it would replicate in such a way that both copies look identical. -Girish -- "unix soi qui mal y pense" UNIX to him who evil thinks
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