I have observed this same problem. Are you running --delete-after? I assumed it might be related to that option. eric
David Garamond wrote: > > our daily backup is done using the rdiff-backup tool, which in turn > utilizes rsync/librsync to do the actual mirroring work. > > a few days ago we did a refactoring and renamed a bunch of directories. > for backward compatibility we maintain the old names by symlinking it to > the new names. so, for example, oldname1/ now becomes newname1/, and > oldname1 is now a symlink to newname1/. > > we found that now the mirroring cannot complete. rsync doesn't seem to > be able to handle this. it tries to do an rmdir(oldname1) followed by > symlink(newname1,oldname1). however, since the directory oldname1/ in > the old mirror is not empty, rmdir fails with "Directory not empty" and > thus symlink fails too with "File exists" (since oldname1 has not been > deleted yet). > > any pointers? we looked at the available rsync options but have found no > clue yet. > > -- > dave > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
