Glad you remembered why I added --delete-before . I forgot. On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > If I remember right, you added the --delete-before option because you were > backing up to a flash drive and without deleting deleted files prior to > starting the copy you were running out of space causing your backup to fail. > > The only real difference that you will see between delete-before and > delete-during is where rsync has to do a complete read through the whole > file structure. If you are using delete-before, rsync HAS to read through > the whole file structure so that it can determine which files to delete > before it starts it's copy. If you use --delete-during, which I believe is > the default, rsync CAN, depending on other options, start copying right > away. That can be a huge time saver. On some of the systems I backup were > are so any files that it can take a half hour before the copy even starts > if rsync can't start copying immediately. > My guess would be that on your system with a single user being backed up > that using --delete-before doesn't cause much more than a few seconds extra > to pass before the copy starts. > If you're no longer using a flash drive to backup and have plenty of space > now, you might as well take the --delete-before off and leave rsync to it's > default behavior. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 02/02/2016 05:59 AM, Michael wrote: > >> I run this command: >> >> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents >> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> >> I was wondering about the --delete-before and was thinking it should be >> --delete-during and was hoping to get all of your opinions on the matter. >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: