On 6/3/16, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all Debian users. > > rsync's `--delete' option works fine when the target directory is the same > as > the sender one. In the following example, I'm sending all the content of > /home/rodolfo from machine1 to /home/rodolfo in machine2: > > $ rsync --dry-run -vrtul --delete --exclude='/.*' . > 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo > > , and --delete works perfectly. Instead, in this other example: > > $ rsync --dry-run -vrt --delete --modify-window=1 Mail News howto ... > /mnt/pendrive/rodolfo > > I'm copying various files from different places of my home directory to a > directory named `rodolfo' on the pendrive. I want that all the files that > are > not listed before `/mnt/pendrive' in the above command were deleted in the > destination, but this does not happen. In rsync `man' page I can't find a > solution. Please, whoever can, any suggestion about how to do so.
I use "--delete --force" per just having stumbled upon it at some point out in the wilds of the Net. Is that maybe what you're looking for? I THINK.. sometimes it leaves my directories but wipes out everything within those directories. Hope that helps (someone at least). :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
