-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 02:35 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: <axe> > Charlie, > Indulge me, but what's the "--delete" flag good for other than saving > diskspace?
Yeah HarM, space. But with 240 GB of disk space available here that isn't the main concern. <g> It also makes a nice clean tree that, in the example given for Mandrake 10, means the tree and hdlists will be in total agreement after the operation is completed. Finally since we're discussing ISOs, if a file or package exists on an old set of disk images but not on the source images for the new version being synced, there will be no discrepancies left if the --delete flag is there. The old files and packages will be deleted. That's why I specified copying the old ISOs. There are many possible reasons to keep ISOs for older releases. > That way if the rsync job hangs or is lost someway you lose > everything.....it does leave a nice clean slate though;) You won't lose everything HarM. The application does a "/tmp mount" (the "r" switch for recursive means all and sub directories in the source and target) of the images in order to do the sync. If rsync or the connection crashes whatever has already been written is still there, so it isn't as though you start over if that happens. I use rsync to keep a local tree of the current and previous 2 releases of Mandrake plus a few other distributions. Also keep all the updates synchronized daily for them. Plus I keep images of OEM Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 Pro and XP Pro. Although the latter are just here in case someone that has kids and a Windows system needs a re-install, but their original disk has become a casualty of parenting. (-; I never know what I'll be asked to install, re-install, or install for someone and I hate waiting for downloads. > Good luck, > HarM Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Dead? No excuse for laying off work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVyuhZqvqlrLPr5YRAsxAAJ44chahLIZBgbqAufwL0ESK6dihOACfeM8L H3ixbMgvlfEBxS8dlatSWx0= =2KfF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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