On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote: > On 05/14/2010 04:29 AM, Prof. P. Sriram wrote: >> I volunteer to be a part of whichever team does this so this >> kind of stuff NEVER happens again. Where do I sign up? >> > > I've always wanted to add a --recycle_folder option to > rsync: > > Files deleted by rsync should instead of being deleted > moved to that folder. When the file appears again rsync > can just fetch it from the recycle folder. The recycle > folder should be cleaned after, say 7 days. --backup-* does at least the saving part for you, the cleaning part can be done via find. Only the fetching part isn't there, it seems :) Cheers, Ralph