On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:22:45 -0700
David <[email protected]> dijo:
>>> rsync -avx /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail
>>>
>>> Don't remove the trailing slash on the source path. It tells rsync
>>> to copy the contents of /home/jjj/Mail to /media/jjj/Data/Mail/, as
>>> opposed to creating a new Mail dir under /media/jjj/Data/Mail/
>>> (i.e., /media/jjj/Data/Mail/Mail). The rsync man page has more
>>> details under the "Usage" section.
>> The above command works, except that it does not remove mails from
>> the backup that have been deleted from the source.
>You probably would benefit from the --delete flag. From the man page,
>this flag will "delete extraneous files from dest dirs" which I
>believe is what you want to accomplish.
OK, I changed it to:
rsync -avx --delete /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail
And it seems to be working.
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