>> AIUI, rsync is "semi-automatic": you need to give it a sync
>> direction, or otherwise manually resolve whether a file missing in
>> one location is copied to the location where it is missing or deleted
>> at the location where it exists.

That's a veryimportant consideration.
In this context of 'follow me and do what I do" at BOTH ends, what you
are trying to synchronise is NOT folder contents but actions.

If you have two folders with contents

            A B C       &    A B C D

should yiu copy D to th elft hand folder or delete D from the right hand fo=
lder.
Without extremely subtle or full time history logging you need
something which tracks intention at each end.

One possible way is to delete to a discard folder and synchronise what
happens with that at the other end before hard deleting.

My solution is, to the maximum point possible, never delete anything.

Somewhere over 10 TB on this PC at present ;-)


               Russell
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