On 10/29/2012 08:06 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
No, not really. We sync with distrib-coffee but we do not get as far
as the -delete option could do any damage: But putting rsync on hold
until the situation is cleared up is certainly a good idea. 1 Minute
ago distrib-coffee answered to our sync request: ------- receiving
incremental file list rsync: change_dir "/linux/Mageia" (in pub)
failed: No such file or directory (2) ............... I checked, all
our Mageia branches with all packages are still here! :)
Yes, rsync at the moment aborts because of missing directories. The
danger will come as the directories get restored and are virtually
empty, because rsync --delete will blow away all of the taget directory
files that don't exist in the source.