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VerifiedSystem Administration Fundamentals

When using rsync to mirror a local directory to a remote server, what does the --delete option signify?

Explanation

The --delete option deletes extraneous files from destination directories. In a local-to-remote mirror, the remote directory is the destination, so files present remotely but absent locally are deleted.

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