Hi. This is my first post to this list. I have searched the archives but
cannot find anything that touches on this particular issue.
My scenario: I am trying to rsync from an external HFS+ (USB2) to a
FAT32 external NAS drive, using rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
(as supplied with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11). The data being synced is MP3
music files and JPGs.
The command I am issuing within my script is:
rsync -ruxi "$sourcedir" "$destdir" \
--size-only --force --log-file="$synclog" --stats --delete
--modify-window=2 --out-format="%i %n%L (%b)" $* >>"$logfn" 2>&1
The issue is that the sync works almost as expected, but fails to delete
non-empty directories at the destination that no longer exist at the
source. Running rsync with -n (dry-run) shows that extraneous
directories will be deleted, but when I omit -n, only the empty
directories are listed for deletion (and deleted).
When I run the same command using a destination on one of my HFS+ drives
it works as expected, but when the destination is FAT32 it will only
delete empty directories.
Readers may notice that I am not preserving Mac resource forks (-E).
This is by design as the files I am syncing to not have resource fork
metadata that I want to preserve (the ._* files actually cause problems
for Windows software in this scenario, making it list duplicate versions
of each file).
I am unsure whether I should be using -u, --size-only and
--modify-window together, though I do not see a connection between those
options and the failure to delete.
After some Googling I have tried using trailing '/." on the source
directory path, that some people said improved rsync deletion behaviour,
but it has not worked in this scenario.
Is this problem solved in newer versions of rsync, and can I safely use
any of these on my pre-Intel Mac.
Thanks for reading. I've been stuck on this for a few days now so I hope
someone here can help.
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