<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for sharing with me about --delete-before. In my subsequent investigation into it's use I found the manpage says that using that option disables 'incremental recursion'. What is 'incremental recurssion'? I assume that I will still be able to backup lower level directories.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Some options require rsync to know the full file list, so these</div><div> options disable the incremental recursion mode. These include:</div><div> --delete-before, --delete-after, --prune-empty-dirs, and</div><div> --delay-updates. Because of this, the default delete mode when</div><div> you specify --delete is now --delete-during when both ends of</div><div> the connection are at least 3.0.0 (use --del or --delete-during</div><div> to request this improved deletion mode explicitly). See also</div><div> the --delete-delay option that is a better choice than using</div><div> --delete-after.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, James Crawford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrefl5@gmail.com" target="_blank">jrefl5@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mike,<br>
you can have rsync do the deletes prior to copying files over<br>
--delete-before receiver deletes before xfer, not during<br>
You can also delete the excluded files if you use some form of the exclude command,<br>
--delete-excluded also delete excluded files from dest dirs<br>
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James C.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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