Rally? I had no idea that the dest would delete anything not in
source. If that's the case, what is --delete for then?
Thanks.
~JK
"Wilson, Mark - MST" wrote:
>
> Leave out the --delete. It will delete everything on the destination that is
> not present on the source, except for .snapshot -if present. If you want to
> play with --delete use the -n option as well. This will tell you what rsync
> is going to do without actually doing anything.
>
> Suggest you try
>
> rsync -avW --exclude=.snapshot /mail-data/ /mnt
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 09:19
> To: RSync List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: question on switches and their order
>
> So, if I understand you correctly, it should work fine (with
> improvements) like this:
>
> rsync --exclude=.snapshot --delete -avW /mail-data/ /mnt
>
> Is this correct?
>
> Thanks.
>
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