On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 08:27:17PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Hi! [...]
> Every night, I have been using rsync to copy from DRIVE1 to DRIVE2,
> doing:
>
> time sudo rsync -avvv --human-readable --delete --numeric-ids
> --info=progress2,stats2,name2 --
> exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media
> /*",
> "/lost+found"} /media/user/DRIVE1/ /media/user/DRIVE2/ ; date
>
> And each time, DRIVE2 would be using more and more space, much more
> than DRIVE1!
I can think about two things which migt keep rsync from deleting
stuff in your target dir.
- Errors. Look for "skipping file deletion" in the logs.
You might want to add --ignore-errors, but this obviously
has a downside -- I'd tend to understand why there are
errors :)
- files piling up in excluded subdirs (however they might end
up there in the first place). --delete-excluded will take
care of that (although I'd be very curious and look into
those excluded dirs first).
Cheers
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