Hi! mark,

On 21 Mar 19 11:00, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> It's akin to Xcopy, with a destructive backup function that
 PQ>> enforces a 'mirror' from source to target.  KISS.

 ml> interestng... rsync has/does the same... i use it to backup my systems
 ml> here as well as backing up several multi-gigabyte git and svn
 ml> repositories... there's only one copy, though, so no chance to go back
 ml> further than the copy currently in place... plus it is a copy, not an
 ml> archive of files backed up...

It's the same outcome: a single generation.  OTOH the clensing function on the
target is useful, to ensure an exact mirror of the source.  I don't recall
rsync doing that[shrug]?

They do the same job: Left or Right hand sort of thing.  I found mirdir first,
and have found the logfile(s) most informative.

Cheers,
Paul.

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