-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 02:51 PM, Steven Levine wrote: > > Take a look at --existing and --update. Some combination of of > these will probably get you the result you want. It depends on > your definition of synchronize. > >> Neither, or both, of those options seem to meet my requirement. >> --existing, "skip creating new files on receiver", appears to be >> counterproductive for synchronizing. > > As I said, it depends on how you define synchronize. There are > times when I need to bring the existing files into sync while not > adding any new files. This is where --existing is useful. The > result is the files are synchronized, although the resulting file > sets might not be identical. > >> But I still see no way to update the sender's files if the >> receiver's files are newer. Would I have to run another rsync >> session with the sender and receiver reversed? > > Yes. I neglected to mention it because I considered it obvious. > Sorry about that. Rsync is basically a very smart copy command. > Rsync can be made act like a move command with the > --remove-source-files, but this a special case. BTW, don't forget > to drop the --delete from the command lines. > Thanks. That is what I was hoping to achieve.
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