rsync is great

[Brian Cuttler]

Use # find on the remote system and list | rm files that meet
your date criteria ?

> I'm not on the list but I just wanted to throw my positive feedback out
> there.  I've been using rsync to backup work that I generate within a
> lab to an offsite system.  If I lost this data ...
> 
> So great.
> 
> 
> In standard community fashion, though, I want to throw an idea out
> there.  It would be nice if there were an option like:
> 
>   --delete-if-too-old
> 
> 
> Currently I run a cron job which copies files offsite nightly.  Once a
> month, though, I use the --delete option to get rid of cruft.
> 
> It would be _nice_, though, if I could delete things that were older
> than a month instead of a simple comparison between what's on the sender
> and the receiver.
> 
> This way files would have a known age of 30 days or whatever before they
> get tossed.  As it is, the interval I can regress to has to do with the 
> time of the month, which is just too close to real life ...
> 
> 
> If there is a better way to submit suggestions I will do so upon hearing
> about it.  
> 
> 
> Thanks for rsync.  I use it every day.
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