Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 11:38:26AM -0500, Indulekha wrote:
> Often I use something like:
> 
> rsync --archive --one-file-system --hard-links --human-readable --inplace --numeric-ids --delete ...
                                                                                          ^^^^^^^^
> to duplicate a system, with the '~/.rsync-exclude' file containing 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is that a mistake? or am I musunderstanding the "--delete" option.

Note: I am not familiar with rsync, but I am familiar with the term
"duplicate"

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