Comment on Backing up easily
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoAgreed. Rsync will happily sync a deletion you didn’t mean to do.
Comment on Backing up easily
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoAgreed. Rsync will happily sync a deletion you didn’t mean to do.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rsync can rename/move target changed or gone from the source.
I use those options so that I get a separate ‘archive’ dir next to my backup target, with old versions of files.
It’s useful for loose collections such as photos.