Rsync : overwrite log file In rsync, --log-file creates a log file, however, if i do a daily backup, the log is appended to the previous log file. How can i force rsync to overwrite the log file instead of appending to it?

The answer is that you cannot (unless you compile your own `rsync` binary).

`rsync` always appends to the log file. So as suggested in the comments you should delete the log before running `rsync`. A simple example of removing the log and then running `rsync` is:


rm rsync.log; rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [DEST]


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