On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > If there's a directory which you know cannot be read and you don't wish > to change it, I'd suggest excluding it from the transfer with --exclude.
That's what I'm doing so far; unfortunately, I'm using rsync to backup a Windows filesystem on a Unix box, and who knows what bizarre directories and with what bizarre permissions Windows is capable of inventing: manually excluding them works pretty well, until a new one appears for some reason. So it's a bit unfortunate that a "permission denied" or "path name too long" or "device or resource busy" error on foo/corge/temp/muf/blah/ will prevent bar/files/oldfile.txt from being deleted. Happy hacking, -- David A. Madore ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.madore.org/~david/ ) -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html