Potential new option: --delete-during

[Chris McKeever]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:55:25 -0800, Steve Bonds
<knnf6cy7w001 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:28:43 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> 
> > Comments?  How do people feel about making the --delete-during behavior
> > the default --delete algorithm?  I think it will be much more efficient
> > (and less prone to timeouts), so having it as the default is the best
> > choice.
> 
> This sounds quite helpful.  How does this behave in the event of a
> read error on the source?  The desired behavior from my standpoint
> would be to disable deletion of files in the current directory, but
> continue deleting files in other directories.
> 

just my .02 - but having it delete after the fact is nice in the sense
if something dies mid-stream it doesnt screw up your backup (if you do
things based on dates or incremental automated backups, etc)

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