Hi folks,
One feature I've wanted in rsync is the ability to delete files that no
longer exist in the source *after some specified grace period.*
The functionality I'm looking for is a backup system that won't actually
delete files until a week or two after the user does. This would:
1.
Just a note:
I do something similar to what you describe, using a Perl script to
invoke rsync with the --backup-dir= option. I back up system drives to
a considerably larger archive volume using the backup-dir= option to
shunt old versions of files (and deleted files) into hierarchies named
