> > One of the reasons for the backup MAY be to prevent the situation where > > a file is deleted by accident. Consider the scenario where you > > accidentally delete a file on your computer, and then the backup script > > runs. Suddenly the backup gets deleted too. > > Good point, I don't run the command automatically. > > Andy was going to use keep for that situation. --delete makes the rsync > backup a mirror of the original as requested. >
Thanks Nick, thanks Col, Yes, --delete should do what I intend. Any deleted files will be in one of the recent Keep files, so it's okay to delete from the mirror. A
