Apologies, I think I'm wrong about my previous reply, just checked and
--delete is "implied"...
You need to use --delete instead of just the --delete-before. You do
not actually need the "before" bit as this is the default for --
delete.
-david
On 14 Jul 2009, at 12:01, Tim Edwards wrote:
I have a script transferring some backup files onto a USB stick,
which
has limited space. I use rsync 3.0.5 with the following command:
rsync -av --delete-before /local/backups/dir/backup1_todaysdate
/local/backups/dir/backup2_todaysdate
/local/backups/dir/backup3_todaysdate /USBstick/backups/dir
The USB stick runs out of space if more than 1 backup set is put on
it,
so I'd assumed that by using the --delete-before option would first
scrub /USBstick/backups/dir of any files that I hadn't listed to be
transfered - is this how it works? Because it doesn't seem to work
that
way - I have to manually delete the old backups from the USB stick
before transferring the new.
Thanks for any help
Tim Edwards
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