pruning old files

[Brad Hards]

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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:46, Shinichi Maruyama wrote:
> jw> In the past i found that using find was quite good for this.
> jw> Use touch to create a file with a mod_time just before you
> jw> started the last sync.  Then from inside $src run
> jw> 	find .  -newer $touchfile -print|cpio -pdm $dest
>
> For pruning, how about to add the feature to rsync.
> Is it difficult ?
Shouldn't be. rsync already has feeping creaturism, although some 
conservatives have been known to object on principle to adding cool new 
features.

> 	--exclude-older=SECONDs
> 		exclude files older than SECONDs before
Define "older"?
Do you mean atime, mtime or ctime?

> 	--ignore-older=SECONDs
> 		ignore any operations with the files older than
> 		SECONDs before
> 		differ from --exclude-olders, these files are not
> 		affected from --include files or --delete-excluded
Same here. What does "operations" mean?

Brad
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