[ale] rsync --delete and initating backups questions

[Jim]

It's a bit of a stretch to say that rsync keeps things in "sync".  It is 
really an intelligent copy but it isn't a bidirection sync.  For 
instance if site A has files a.txt b.txt and c.txt and site B has d.txt 
e.txt and f.txt, then an rsync from A to B would simply copy a.txt, 
b.txt and c.txt to B.  It wouldn't update A at all.  I may be wrong but 
I got the impression you might have thought it would.

Jim.