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[Matt McCutchen]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 21:28 -0400, Franck Yelles wrote:
> On 2-Oct-08, at 21:01, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 20:59 -0400, Franck Y wrote:
> >> Is there anyway to move the deleted files/folder to another place ?
> >> I have googled a little bit but nothing comes out.
> >
> > It's the --backup-dir option.  If you want to treat deleted files
> > differently from overwritten ones, use this patch:
> >
> > http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/backup-dir-dels.diff
> 
> Thanks matt.
> Will it create the same directory tree (structure) ?

Yes.  Rsync will move each deleted or overwritten destination file to
the same path under the backup dir as it was at under the destination,
creating ancestor directories as necessary.

Matt