Re: --delete-before doesn't seem to actually be deleting before transfer

2009-07-21 Thread Tim Edwards
Matt McCutchen schrieb: Thanks for the help but I've still had no luck with this. The command now looks like: backupstoremove.py | rsync -av --progress --no-p --no-g --delete-before --stats --include-from=- --include=/media/300GIGHD/backups/dar/restore --exclude=*.dar

Re: --delete-before doesn't seem to actually be deleting before transfer

2009-07-20 Thread Tim Edwards
Matt McCutchen schrieb: No, rsync will only do that if if you have it synchronize /USBstick/backups/dir , i.e., specify a source directory that maps to it. Just copying several dirs _into_ /USBstick/backups/dir does not do the trick. See the description of --delete in the man page.

--delete-before doesn't seem to actually be deleting before transfer

2009-07-14 Thread Tim Edwards
to manually delete the old backups from the USB stick before transferring the new. Thanks for any help Tim Edwards -- 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