Thanks a lot Wayne, that explains it. I changed the --delete to --delete-excluded and appended a trailing C to data. This way I get the desired behaviour.
However, this leads me to the conclusion I need to run rsync separatly for any of the drives, right? Dave > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:25:14PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote: >> The directory "~data/C/test2" does not get deleted on the remote side. > > Which is a very good thing, because you didn't tell it to transfer > test2, and rsync does not go around deleting things outside the > transferred file tree. > > Rsync only deletes inside directories that it sends, so you'll need to > send the whole .../C/ dir if you want rsync to delete subdirs inside it. > If you only want to transfer some of the dirs inside .../C/, you'll need > to use the --include/--exclude syntax to limit which directories on the > source side get transferred. Like this: > > $ rsync -avvr --temp-dir=temp --delete -e ssh --stats > --include=/test1/ --include=/test3/ --exclude=/* > /cygdrive/C/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:data > > You can put the include/exclude statements into a file, like this: > > + /test1/ > + /test2/ > - /* > > And then use --include-from=FILE instead of the separate > --include/--exclude options. > > ..wayne.. > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
