Hi, On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 02:52:49PM -0500, Default User wrote: > By "glitch", I mean anything that could interfere with the rsync copy > process. Possible causes: > - electrical outages, voltage spikes, voltage drops, "brownouts" > - mechanical failure > - earthquake > - lightning > - cat walking on keyboard > - out of memory errors > - out of disk space errors > - PEBKAC errors > - etc.
But, both --delete and --delete-after only delete things from the destination that ALREADY are missing on the source, so in which of the above situations would something that still exists somewhere be accidentally deleted with either option? In my view the only ones that apply would be human error / cat standard behaviour but even then you'd have to notice it had happened and abort the transfer before rsync has chance to do the delete. Do you typically sit and watch these transfers? It doesn't sound like any kind of backup to me if it doesn't have history, i.e. the state of your data *before* the cat walked on 'r' 'm' ' ' '-' 'f' 'r' ' ' '.' '<return>'. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
