On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:20:46PM +0100, Johannes Kastl wrote: > But there is also a directory delete-this-2004-11-15... , > but it is empty, and no files are copied/moved there afterwards.
The erroneous creation of an empty directory was fixed recently in the CVS version of rsync. You can incorporate this fix into a stock 2.6.3, if you like -- just check out the diff of what changed in version 1.108 of receiver.c, which you can browse on the web: http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/receiver.c Note that rsync does not apply the --suffix value to directory names in the backup area. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html