mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. i use cvsup to backup certain critical folders on the machine labs, > to the machine labs2 automatically every night. My question is this. If i > add new stuff to say, /home/mike (or wherever) then that gets mirrored at > night and everything does its job as i want it to. However, if i DELETE > something from /home/mike (or whereever) It never gets deleted from labs2. > So its not "synching" correctly. For example i just went to zip -r > cvsup-backup cvsup-backup on labs2, so i can pull it to XP and burn it, > and i realized it had my library still in there which i deleted months > ago.
cvsup isn't going to be very good at tracking which files have been deleted on the original, unless you are pulling from a cvs repository (that's where it keeps information on directory contents). Otherwise, it won't know whether a file has been deleted from the original machine, or is a local modification on the duplicate. Given that you're not using cvs, you'd probably do better with rsync for this job. You could also use other tools that can keep metadata, like dump(8) or even use the incremental facilities of Gnu tar. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
