On Mon, Mar 21, 2011, Shlomo Solomon wrote about "rsync problem": > I have a backup script using rsync. I've included part of it below. For some > reason, everything seems to work OK except that files don't get deleted from > the backup copy of /home (I've marked the problem with a comment). Since the > params I specify on all lines of the script are the same, I can't see any > reason why the /home directory would be handled differently.
If rsync finds a read error in the local directory, it *disables* the --delete option, thinking that it might accidentally delete files that weren't actually deleted - we just had files reading them. So my guess is that you had a read error in /home. A very common (and very annoying) reason for such a read error is your $HOME/.gvfs, which often causes ridiclous errors when read. If this is indeed your problem, you can add the "--ignore-errors" option to rsync to ignore errors and do the --delete in spite of them. Be aware, though, that you are risking a massive deletion of your remote system if you have real read errors. If you also use the --backup option, this might not be a risk - but please do the consideration yourself. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Mar 21 2011, 16 Adar II 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Politics, n: from Greek, "poly"=many, http://nadav.harel.org.il |"ticks"=blood sucking parasites. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
