Re: HELP: need better understanding of "--delete" flag

2005-11-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:08:56PM -0800, Jeff Martin wrote: > Need to understand exactly what the "--delete" flag does when rsync > runs. I think the rsync manpage explains this quite well: This tells rsync to delete extraneous files from the receiving side (ones that aren't on the send

Re: HELP: need better understanding of "--delete" flag

2005-11-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 04:08, Jeff Martin wrote: > Need to understand exactly what the "--delete" flag > does when rsync runs. > > Here is my understanding... If a file is created on > the source machine on monday, then rsync'd to the > rsync server on monday night, then deleted on the > source m

HELP: need better understanding of "--delete" flag

2005-11-22 Thread Jeff Martin
Need to understand exactly what the "--delete" flag does when rsync runs. Here is my understanding... If a file is created on the source machine on monday, then rsync'd to the rsync server on monday night, then deleted on the source machine tuesday, then it will be deleted from the rsync server o