Deletion of destination files

Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.medina at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 15:02:51 UTC 2016


"Steven Levine" <steve53 at earthlink.net> writes:

> In <87bn3frk92.fsf at gmail.com>, on 06/05/16
>    at 10:40 AM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> said:
>
> Hi Rodolfo,
>
>> $ rsync --dry-run -vrt --delete --modify-window=1 file1 file2 file3 ...
>>/mnt/pendrive/rodolfo
>
>>not happen.  In rsync `man' page I can't find a solution.
>
> It comes up so often on the list that this should be a FAQ.
>
> Check out
>
>   --itemize-changes
>
> It is almost always the best solution for understanding why rsync is
> processing a given file a certain way.  --verbose is typically more
> helpful when diagnosing problems with complex filters and other obscure
> problems.


Thanks.  But neither the use of -i either -v shows or tells anything about the
files deleted in the sender, that remain in the destination and are are not
deleted.

Regards,

Rodolfo



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