sorry about the delay getting back to you on your considered reply,
sorry to see that this question has been asked before
(http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-September/004877.html)
and sorry for this basically frivolous reply:
i guess my take is that, if the user requested preservation of
Buck,
You have a good point about make_bak_dir(), and pose a good question...
With the --backup-dir switch, any file *or directory* that is destined
for deletion is saved to the backup directory. A file is "deleted" by
rsync whenever it is actually deleted on the sync system (obviously!),
or whe
