I now realize that files were not removed from target location when not in source location because they had become part of the exclude list. I guess that this is probably the correct behaviour, although it might be useful to have an option such as "--delete excluded".
sorry for the noise.. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Chris Isaac Larnder <[email protected]> wrote: > When using reverse mirror, I want files in remote ("target") location > deleted if they are not present in the local ("source") directory > tree. Is there an option for this? > > This appears to be the behaviour _only_ when using non-reverse mirror > with option -e: > > from the man page: > > mirror > -e, --delete delete files not present at remote site > -- Chris Isaac Larnder Department of Physics, John Abbott College St.-Anne-de-Bellevue ( Montreal ) Quebec (514)-457-6610
