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    On 2019 Mar 22 09:05:12, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> interestng... rsync has/does the same... i use it to backup my   
    ml>> systems 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   
    ml>> back further than the copy currently in place... plus it is a copy,   
    ml>> not an archive of files backed up...   
      
    PQ> It's the same outcome: a single generation.  OTOH the clensing   
    PQ> function on the target is useful, to ensure an exact mirror of the   
    PQ> source.  I don't recall rsync doing that[shrug]?   
      
   here's an example from one of our regularly used update scripts...   
      
     rsync -av --delete $RTYPE.code.sf.net::p/$PROJECT/$REPO .   
      
   in this case:   
     -a is archive   
     -v is verbose   
     --delete removes unknown files from the dest directory   
     $RTYPE is either git or svn   
     $PROJECT is the name of the project   
     $REPO is the name of the repository being synced   
      
    PQ> They do the same job: Left or Right hand sort of thing.  I found   
    PQ> mirdir first, and have found the logfile(s) most informative.   
      
   those log files are handy, that's for sure... i have my scripts written from a   
   template i hacked together over time... they log everything from stdout and   
   stderr into a specified log file... the log files are rotated to a max of 10   
   logs... the current one and the 9 previous ones... a different template doesn't   
    do rotation of the logs but they are time stamped in their file names...   
      
     eg: 20190322-foobar.log   
         201903221800-fubar.log   
      
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