--delete

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sun Oct 5 18:19:05 GMT 2008


On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 01:03 -0400, Franck Y wrote:
> Quick Question i will have to download the source [to use a backup
> dir] ? 
> 
> It is already running on my system ? I have installed though a rpm ?

Your RPM-installed rsync should support the --backup-dir option out of
the box.  You only need to get the source and rebuild rsync if you want
the --backup-dir-dels option, which lets you treat deleted files
differently from overwritten ones.

Matt



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