On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for your response Matt. > On the source server, "/snapshots/fs/tce_data/pc-software/pc" is a symlink > to the directory "/snapshots/fs/tce_data/pc". > > On the destination server, > "/drp/fmttcesrv1/snapshots/fs/tce_data/pc-software" is a directory which > contains the partial content of "/drp/fmttcesrv1/snapshots/fs/tce_data/pc". > rmdir cannot remove "/drp/fmttcesrv1/snapshots/fs/tce_data/pc-software" > which is not empty as it contains partial content from > "/drp/fmttcesrv1/snapshots/fs/tce_data/pc".
Ah. If you want rsync to recursively delete a destination directory that is to be replaced with a non-directory, you just need to use --force. (I was thrown off by the "File exists" error; I would have expected "Directory not empty".) Matt
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