Greeting. I'm so sorry that I launched the previous email by mistake and before I had a chance to complete it. Here is the summary of my previous question.
We would like to use rsync to mirror the contents from our internal staging server ( A) to the external website (B) at our ISP without delete some existing files on B. On server B, we have applications that creates temporary lock files and customer upload files which I have no ideas what to exclude. The --exclude option would be my last resort, but I just want to know if there are better alternatives. If I use the --delete option in rsync, all the temporary files at the destination B will be deleted. In contrast, if I don't use the --delete option, the destination's temporary files will be intact, but any files removed from the source, A will not be deleted at the destionation B. It seems to me that the --delete option is either all or none with the --exclude option as exception. Maintainning a static list of exclude files would be very difficult and cumbersome for future maintainance. I have gone through the FAQ as far back as 2000, but couldn't find any similar question. Would appreciate very much if someone could please give me some pointers. Attached is the rsync command line that I use: rsync --verbose --update --progress --stats --compress --ignore-existing --delete --delete-after --recursive --times --perms --links --dry-run --rsh=/usr/local/bin/ssh --rsync-path /var/tmp/rsync /export/volx/documents/ destination_login@hostB:/export/volx (notice I left dry-run there for testing) Thank you in advance for your help . Andy Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
