From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 9:29:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0859D37B482 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:29:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.clickcom.com (mx2.clickcom.com [209.198.22.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A2743F3F for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsmailing@clickcom.com) Received: from aesop (calefaction.clickcom.com [209.198.22.19]) by mx1.clickcom.com (email) with ESMTP id 698EFCB2B4; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:29:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John Straiton" To: "'Dan Nelson'" Cc: Subject: RE: [OT] file synchronization between two machines Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:23:01 -0500 Message-ID: <006601c2f2f3$32cdfb90$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20030325170212.GC48060@dan.emsphone.com> Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The only drawback is rsync will never delete files; you have to > manually remove them from both machines manually. It wouldn't be near as neat a utility if that were true (unless I misunderstood your statement). From the man page for rsync: --delete delete files that don't exist on the sending side --delete-excluded also delete excluded files on the receiving side --delete-after delete after transferring, not before --ignore-errors delete even if there are IO errors John Straiton jks@clickcom.com Clickcom, Inc 704-365-9970x101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message