> It seems like you trying as hard as possible to not use any > BackupPC- specific functionality. If you just want to do a > plain rsync with the --delete switch, why don't you just do > that? Seems like that would be a whole lot simpler than using > BackupPC and trying to change it into a plain native rsync binary.
Hehehe... I understand your point of view, and it really sound like I want BackupPC to work like a simple rsync. This is because I'm sort of "migrating" from rsnapshot to BackupPC and thus thought I could pass over the exact same command line syntax. > BackupPC keeps several complete backups. The number of > backups that are kept around is configurable. Files will be > deleted when they are not in any backups anymore, so there is > no need to use --delete in the rsync arguments and AFAIK > File::RsyncP indeed doesn't even support that switch. I got it! ;-) Holger explained everything very clearly in its post... Regards, Flavio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/