Try this instead:
rsync [OPTIONS] --include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE --exclude='*'
/var/data/shares/vmbackups/ /mnt/usb_backup/SFSYDVS01/daily.0/VM/
This way, rsync will scan the destination directory for deletions (since
you have -a without --files-from, which implies -r) and will delete the
old files because they are excluded with --delete-excluded.
Matt
Thanks Matt,
I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me as you describe. I just
created a test setup. The commands I'm running are as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync --version
rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /tmp/source/
Thursday2008-09-11.bkf Tuesday2008-09-09.bkf Wednesday2008-09-10.bkf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -t1 /tmp/source | head -n 1 > /tmp/BACKUPFILE
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /tmp/BACKUPFILE
Thursday2008-09-11.bkf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync -ah --delete --numeric-ids --stats
--delete-excluded -include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE --exclude='*'
/tmp/source/ /tmp/destination/
.d..t...... ./
Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 0 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 20
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 42
Total bytes received: 26
sent 42 bytes received 26 bytes 136.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /tmp/destination/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
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