john espiro <john_esp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have a local directory that I am trying to sync with a remote directory. > That's fine, but there's a lot of data that is out of sync so I decided to > make a local copy of the difference to then bring to the remote location. > > > So I ran a dry-run between the two to generate a list of files in > listOfFiles.txt > > Then I ran rsync from local to localBackup. > > > rsync -av --files-from=/tmp/listOfFiles.txt /var/MyData/ /USB/Backup/ > > > Now, while this is happening, I am still rsycning between my local and my > remote. So I re-generate the listOfFiles.txt, which contains less things to > copy than before.... I'd like to delete anything in /USB/Backup that is not > in the listOfFiles.txt
Does it matter ? Take your USB drive to the remote location, rsync the files - any that are the same will be skipped. Then you can resume resyncing remotely as normal. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html