[BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_

2024-05-06 Thread Kirby
BackupPC has been covering up my stupid mistakes since 2005. Fortunately, I have never done the 'rm -r *' until last week. Good thing was that I was in my home directory so the system itself was untouched and I caught myself before too much could get deleted. 'Not a problem!' I thought. I will

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_

2024-05-06 Thread backuppc
That shouldn't of course happen -- though you did violate the first rule of backups which is to *test* them so they are there and working when you need them 😊 You would need to tell us a lot more details if you want help. My guess given the lack of any other diagnostic information is that perhaps y

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_

2024-05-06 Thread Dave Sherohman via BackupPC-users
By default, rsync will only copy new files to the destination and update existing ones, but it does not delete files which are not present in the source unless it receives the --delete parameter. Sounds like you're probably missing that. From: Kirby Sent: Monda