Sync files-from with delete

[john espiro]

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

TLDR: I want to make a local backup of the differences between local and remote 
and sync them to a separate local drive.

Thanks...
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Re: Sync files-from with delete

[john espiro]

- Original Message -
From: Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk
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Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: Sync files-from with delete

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.




The remote location is rather remote, so that wouldn't work in this particular 
case.
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