rsync - Oct 2004 - --delete option

I'm a bit paranoid, but had to ask-- How safe is it to use the --delete
option?

ie, when using it locally (or via a mounted network volume), will I
*ever* have to worry about my actual source files being delete
mistakenly (instead of dest. files)?

thanks!

On Fri 29 Oct 2004, johhhn@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm a bit paranoid, but had to ask-- How safe is it to use the --delete
option?
> 
> ie, when using it locally (or via a mounted network volume), will I
> *ever* have to worry about my actual source files being delete
> mistakenly (instead of dest. files)?
Source files will never be deleted.

Of course, if you screw up the parameters to rsync sufficiently, you
might end up passing the source dir as the destination, but there's
nothing any software can do about that sort of error...

When in doubt, use the --dry-run option to show what rsync is going to
do without actually doing anything.


Paul Slootman