Rsync behaviour on harddisc crash

[Paul Slootman]

On Thu 18 Mar 2010, Mac User FR wrote:

> Wouldn't it be better to use conditional expressions from sh with a
> smaller footprint than rsync --list to check if the directory
> exists?
> I think on something like:
> -d file
> 	      True if file exists and is a directory.

That won't work to check a directory on a remote system.
(Hint: server::folder indicates an rsync module "folder" on the "server" system.)

Paul