>> Is there a way to take advantage of incremental, even if it means >> running rsync twice? > >You can use --ignore-existing --ignore-non-existing --del to perform an >incremental deletion run: > >--existing, --ignore-non-existing > This tells rsync to skip creating files (including directories) that > do not exist yet on the destination. If this option is combined > with the --ignore-existing option, no files will be updated (which > can be useful if all you want to do is to delete extraneous files).
I'll give that a try. I have already read the manual when I was setting up my backup, but it seems I should read it again more closely :) Thanks bye Fabi -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
