Re: : Remote rsync question
William Muriithi <[email protected]>
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> > You may also want to use "--delete" so that your remote copy doesn't > > keep copies of deleted files forever. > > Not using --delete has saved me a few times when I accidentally > deleted stuff I didn't mean to, and realized it a few weeks later. I > weed out cruft manually. And with 2 terabyte drives, I can keep old > stuff around. > Me too. I don't need delete for safety. Better clean up manually. Also its most likely the backup device is bigger than the internal drive. So when I run off space, just drop stuff on the laptop and a copy stay on your backups. That ease the decision on what to purge when you are maxed up on internal drive William > -- > Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/[email protected]> > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications > -- > The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ > TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns > How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists