On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:46 +0000, Simon Brown wrote: > 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).
I can't help with the Apple-modified rsync. In addition, that area of rsync's behavior underwent some improvements in version 3.0.0: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3825 Please try the latest stable rsync, 3.0.5, which you can compile yourself or get from Fink or MacPorts among other places. > 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. That combination of options does seem odd (though unrelated to the deletion). What are you trying to accomplish? -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
