No, you misunderstood him: he meant that --delete would delete things, not
the lack of it. Of course if that's what you want then you need to put it
in.
Yes, your command line should work. Note, however, that when copying
between two filesystems mounted on the local machine, people have seen
hangs more often than remote, and Wayne Davison's nohang patch (now in
the rsync CVS tree) has helped a lot of people. Also for improved
performance definitely use -W to disable the rsync rolling checksum
algorithm, and don't use -z. The rsync algorithm, and rsync's primary
reason for existence, is to optimize the network traffic between two
endpoints, but in your case the two endpoints are on the same machine as
far as rsync knows.
- Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:52:19PM -0700, Jeff Kennedy wrote:
> Rally? I had no idea that the dest would delete anything not in
> source. If that's the case, what is --delete for then?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ~JK
>
> "Wilson, Mark - MST" wrote:
> >
> > Leave out the --delete. It will delete everything on the destination that is
> > not present on the source, except for .snapshot -if present. If you want to
> > play with --delete use the -n option as well. This will tell you what rsync
> > is going to do without actually doing anything.
> >
> > Suggest you try
> >
> > rsync -avW --exclude=.snapshot /mail-data/ /mnt
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 09:19
> > To: RSync List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: question on switches and their order
> >
> > So, if I understand you correctly, it should work fine (with
> > improvements) like this:
> >
> > rsync --exclude=.snapshot --delete -avW /mail-data/ /mnt
> >
> > Is this correct?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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