rsync - Aug 2004 - deleting files on server side

Hello all, 

Do someone know how can I delete files on a rsync server by using a rsync 
client without using SSH/RSH? 

Doing a "rsync -avz --stats --port=874 /export/home/user/* 
destinationhost::TEST" I?m copying files from /export/home/user/* to the 
'path' of destinationhost. TEST module have the ?path? directive set to 
?/home/user?. 

My doubt is how can I delete all files/directory over /home/user/* before 
copying the source files to it ? 

thanks in advance, 
Fabiano 

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On Tue 03 Aug 2004, Fabiano Reis wrote:
> 
> Do someone know how can I delete files on a rsync server by using a rsync 
> client without using SSH/RSH? 
rsync an empty directory to it, and use the --delete option?
> Doing a "rsync -avz --stats --port=874 /export/home/user/* 
> destinationhost::TEST" I?m copying files from /export/home/user/* to
the
> 'path' of destinationhost. TEST module have the ?path? directive
set to
> ?/home/user?. 
Don't use /export/home/user/* , leave the recursion to rsync, i.e. use
/export/home/user/
> My doubt is how can I delete all files/directory over /home/user/* before 
> copying the source files to it ? 
Why? If you use rsync's --delete option, it will delete any files that
don't exist on the sender; files that exist on both sides will benefit
from rsync's algorithm and speed up the transfer.


Paul Slootman