Re: How do you mirror?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:46:26AM +0000, Keith O'Connell wrote:

> I have been using rsync, but that coppies the changes on the main disk
> onto the backup disk, but seems not to be able to remove from the backup
> anything that has been removed from the main disk, so after a period of
> time the backup disk overflows with old, unwanted stuff.

Read the rsync man page and use the --delete option. Then it will delete
the files that are not on the original.

Johann
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