On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:21:13PM -0500, David Filion wrote:
> Why does the dry-run indicate the directory is deleted, but when run
> with out the dry-run flag, it is not?
An exclude has two actions: it hides items on the server side, and it
protects items on the client side. If a directory contains protected
items, it won't be deleted. You can turn off the protection by using
--delete-excluded, or you can simplify your command by changing both
your include options (one of which is really an exclude) into a filter
command that just tells rsync to hide the non-directory server content
without protecting it on the client. Your command would then look like
this (I made your options more compact and removed the redundant ones):
rsync -rvb --del --backup-dir=$DELETEDIR --stats \
-f 'hide,! */' $SERVER::'ucp/' .
The filter option tells rsync to hide all non-directories due to the
"not" ('!') attribute. Also, the only time that a directory will appear
in the backup-dir you specified is if there is a non-directory that
needs to be backed up (since rsync doesn't backup dirs), so that is
probably useless in this context.
..wayne..
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