On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:41 +1200, Allistar wrote: > I am backing up a remove partition which is 38Gb onto a local partition > which is 40Gb. Rsync is complaining that I have run out of disk space on > the local partition, and I can tell that this would not happen if local > files that are missing in the remote system were deleted BEFORE copying > down new files. > > I note there is a --delete-after option, but is there a --delete-before > option? If not, can I simulate this somehow? > > This is rsync version 2.6.2 protocol version 28
Oops, I didn't notice the really old rsync version. In rsync 2.6.2, just use --delete to "delete before". If you are doing that and are still running out of disk space, something else may be wrong. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
