rsync's --delete and --exclude option

Richard Ivarson RiIvarson@gmail.com
Fri May 9 14:10:00 GMT 2008


Hi,

When you use rsync with option --delete and --exclude (for example 
exclude='*.bak') then rsync will exclude such files from source and 
destination and hence also not delete *.bak files on the destination.

However, would it be possible to still make rsync delete such excluded files 
on the destination?
For example, when have source and destination rsynced hosts which thousands 
of files and you decide to add more excludes, it'd be nice to let delete now 
unused files on the destination, too, even if their source counterparts are 
now on the exclude list.

-Richard


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