Just delete extraneous files, without updating other changes?

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Thu Feb 16 18:55:55 MST 2012


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You want --ignore-existing

On 02/16/12 20:36, Bryan Pliatsios wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I thought --recursive  and  --delete-before  might be an option and
> I can quit rsync when it begins the updates, but the incremental
> recursive scanning is disabled and this will certainly crash rsync
> as it was before moving to v3.x (too many files).
> 
> I have no experience with --write-batch but I wonder if it's
> safe/sane to edit the resulting batch output file, or by doing a
> --dry-run | grep "deleting" and fire that list thru rm. Other
> thoughts?
> 
> 
> Bryan

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