Deleting a remote file when deleted locally...
Hardy Merrill
hmerrill at redhat.com
Tue Nov 11 23:56:52 EST 2003
mailinglists at net-virtual.com [mailinglists at net-virtual.com] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have several individual files in a directory that I want to keep
> syncronized. Here's an example:
>
>
> Server #1 (host):
> /tmp/file1
> /tmp/file2
>
> Now of course I can run "rsync -a /tmp/file1 remoteuser at remotehost:/tmp"...
>
> But, when I delete /tmp/file1 from the host and try to run this it
> complains about /tmp/file1 being non-existant...
>
> Can I force (or using a more elegant method) make the remote server delete
> an individual file if it no longer exists on the host?... Obviously I do
> not want to rsync the entire directory, I just want that single file to be
> transferred...
Did you notice the --delete option in the rsync manpage? Does
that not do what you want here?
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Hardy Merrill
Red Hat, Inc.
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