MSDeploy: "Leave extra files on destination" from command line?

Question

I use MSDeploy to publish things to different servers during CI. When I publish from Visual Studio 2010 I have a "Leave extra files on destination" option, but I can't seem to find a flag for this functionality when invoking MSDeploy from the command line.

Does anyone know how to do this??

Answer 1

For msdeploy.exe you need to add -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule to ensure content is not deleted. For more info on MSDeploy rules see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd568992(WS.10).aspx.

Answer 2

If you want to choose which dirs need to be leaved, you can read http://blog.alanta.nl/2011/02/web-deploy-customizing-deployment.html