--delete option

[johhhn at gmail.com]

thanks, that's what I wanted to hear (:


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:22:16 +0200, Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri 29 Oct 2004, johhhn at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > I'm a bit paranoid, but had to ask-- How safe is it to use the --delete option?
> >
> > ie, when using it locally (or via a mounted network volume), will I
> > *ever* have to worry about my actual source files being delete
> > mistakenly (instead of dest. files)?
> 
> Source files will never be deleted.
> 
> Of course, if you screw up the parameters to rsync sufficiently, you
> might end up passing the source dir as the destination, but there's
> nothing any software can do about that sort of error...
> 
> When in doubt, use the --dry-run option to show what rsync is going to
> do without actually doing anything.
> 
> 
> Paul Slootman
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