How to delete a whole destination tree (inclusive the destination its-self) with rsync (daemon)?

2010-10-30 Thread Vahsen Beheer
A nice trick is to make an empty source directory: rsync -a --delete /tmp/empty-dir/ remote-host::Backups/daily.20101030-0155 This works perfect. It deletes the contents of destination. However, need it to also delete the destination directory its-self.

Re: osx remote backup wrong permissions

2010-10-30 Thread Robert DuToit
On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Mike Bombich wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Robert DuToit wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm trying a remote backup for the first time. It is between two laptops, I >> installed rsync 3.0.7 on both compiled >> >> patch -p1 > >> patch -p1 > >> patch -p1 > >

Re: osx remote backup wrong permissions

2010-10-30 Thread Mike Bombich
On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Robert DuToit wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying a remote backup for the first time. It is between two laptops, I > installed rsync 3.0.7 on both compiled > > patch -p1 > patch -p1 > patch -p1 > patch -p1 f > patch -p1 > ./configure > > make > > this all wo

osx remote backup wrong permissions

2010-10-30 Thread Robert DuToit
Hi All, I'm trying a remote backup for the first time. It is between two laptops, I installed rsync 3.0.7 on both compiled patch -p1 https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html