On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:24:35PM -0000, va_public
<yahoogroups@vikas.mailshell.com> wrote:> rsync 2.5.6
>
> If I turn on the --backup (and --backup-dir and --suffix) options and
> rsync a tree like
>
> rsync --backup ... -av --delete dir1/ user@machine:dir1
>
> I dont see the 'deleting ...' message in the output, but if I
delete
> a file in the source tree, it DOES get deleted from the target tree.
>
> If I remove the '--backup' option, I do get the 'deleting
...'
> message.
>
> Why is this?
>
> If the file is getting deleted, shouldnt the --verbose option print a
> message to this effect?
Because it isn't deleting the files.
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