rsync - Oct 2006 - how to move the files that should be deleted to somewhere else

I am using rsync version 2.6.4 on Debian 3.1rc. I use rsync in this way:
rsync -avLz -e ssh --progress --delete --exclude=file 
root@192.168.0.31:/data/lessondev/ /mnt/usb/
Now I would like all old files that should be deleted to be kept in 
somewhere else, maybe also renamed to append a timestamp. Any suggestion 
will be appreciated.

- Jerry

On 10/15/06, Jerry Fleming <jerry.fleming@saybot.com>
wrote:
> I am using rsync version 2.6.4 on Debian 3.1rc. I use rsync in this way:
> rsync -avLz -e ssh --progress --delete --exclude=file
> root@192.168.0.31:/data/lessondev/ /mnt/usb/
> Now I would like all old files that should be deleted to be kept in
> somewhere else, maybe also renamed to append a timestamp. Any suggestion
> will be appreciated.
You can use --backup, but it will keep copies of overwritten files as
well as deleted files.  You can put the backups in another directory
(--backup-dir) and/or append a string of your choice to their names
(--suffix).

Matt