[RndTbl] rsync with multi-direction delete.

Bill Reid billreid at shaw.ca
Mon Sep 17 14:38:37 CDT 2007


Montana Quiring wrote:

> I'm rsyncing from a directory on a server to a usb mass-storage device
> attached to a different computer. I'm running an rsync daemon on the
> server and I'm able to successfully synchronize the contents of a
> directory on the server to a directory on the usb device.
> 

I do not think rsync is the proper tool for that. It does not keep any status 
files of the last rsync so it can not determine that a USB file was deleted. It 
assumes that the source is the master.

I do not have a suggestion.

-- Bill



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