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Hi I'm trying to build a backup system based on rsync. It should work with different destinations (local, share, remote etc) that's why I'm looking for ways how every operation can be controlled from the client side. I want to create full backups and incremental backups. For the incremental backups I use --compare-dest lastfullbackup. This works nicely except that the whole directory

Hello :) I am trying to build a backup system based upon Rsync, and I have a question about it's deleting features. I want to be able to use rsync to delete and remove a directory from the remote server, similar to "rm -Rf directory" The closest I seem to be able to get is the following progression: # rm -Rf directory (nuke local directory) # mkdir directory (recreat as empty