On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:04 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:

> I have an external USB drive that I back up to a Synology NAS drive
> with the command:
>
> rsync -rptog --progress --stats --delete
> --exclude-from=/media/jjj/Movies/rsync_exclusions /media/jjj/Movies/
> /media/jjj/Synology
>
> The object is to make the Synology a mirror of the USB drive
> (/media/jjj/Movies).
>
> I deleted a folder on the USB drive, ran the command, and the folder
> was replaced on the USB drive. This is backwards. What am I doing wrong?
>

wild guess: try reversing  /media/jjj/Movies/ and /media/jjj/Synology in
your rsync command?

-wes
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