-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-07-28 at 14:23 +0200, J Beris wrote:
Thanks for the fast reply. Yes, I know what --delete does, and I *want* rsync to delete files from the target directory...only not right away, but after 14 days or 30 days or so. If I don't use --delete, then rsync will just keep adding things to the backup, but never removing them, as I understand it.
Am I wrong about that?
It is done differently. The new backup is created in another directory, where the files that have not changed are hardlinks to the previous backup, new files are copied, and the deleted files neither. rsync does that, and many scripts make use of that to keep several copies and purge old copies. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIjb9StTMYHG2NR9URAsJqAJ970fqYLRtUk39mwPIh7TdWWwj11ACgjt6T /FeNMytluwARGfd4XBnOKoM= =NIka -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org