__/ [ Roy Culley ] on Sunday 17 December 2006 16:15 \__
> begin risky.vbs
> <1454072.KctILbvL0z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> You can have confidence in rsync, but in due course it leads to
>> cruft (files don't get deleted).
>
> They do if you use --delete. rsync is excellent. I use it daily to
> backup the partitions on my laptop. I give it the --delete switch once
> per week to remove stuff. --exclude is also useful for anything you
> don't want included.
Excellent, THANKS! I'll modify the jobs. Up until now I was rm -rf'ing once a
week (takes about 25 minutes) and then scp'ing or rsync'ing (duration is
nightly).
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