Matt McCutchen wrote:
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.
Many thanks for your reply, Matt.
I installed version 3.05 via MacPorts and the rsync command now works as
expected, including deletion of non-empty directories.
I chose MacPorts because Fink didn't have 3.05 listed as a stable
release (they show 3.0.4-1 as latest stable for 10.4 on PPC Macs)
Apologies for the delay in responding. After upgrading rsync I was
initially finding that all files were being overwritten each time, and
took an embarrassingly long time to work out that the NAS box was
controlling the file timestamp (always setting the mod date to the date
of transfer) but the NAS clock was out of sync with the sending
machine's clock, so the timestamps never matched and the files were
always copied again. That, added to the FAT32 'even numbers only'
timestamping was enough to keep my guessing for a long time.
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?
I am trying to maintain a collection of music / photos / videos on a NAS
box (formatted FAT32 for cross-platform use). The shared portion of the
NAS is read-write for users (partner and family members), but I need to
be able to restore it to a mirror of my current master collection
periodically. I can't make it read-only because my cheap cross-platform
NAS doesn't support read-only shares and I wanted to allow for it being
taken off the network and used via direct USB connection, which meant
that I needed to be able to re-sync the content, allowing for folders in
the source being re-classified (moved within the hierarchy).
I had resorted to using --size-only or --checksum because I hadn't yet
worked out that it NAS box's date value that was being used to set
timestamps. Now that I've resolved that, rsync works fine with just -u
and --modify-window. Googling for clues (problems setting dates on
FAT32) taught me that I wouldn't be able to preserve modification dates,
but setting them to the time of transfer is good enough for my purposes.
Adding the new rsync version via Macports has given it precendence over
the pre-installed Apple version, so I also needed to update my other
rsync scripts use -X to preserve extended attributes instead of -E.
Thanks again for responding. Apologies again for the delayed reply.
*Some links for anyone else searching on this issue:
*Mike Bombich on building patched version of 3.05 to recognise Mac
resource forks.
--> http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html
*
*Working with FAT32 in Ubuntu Linux (covers dates, mixed case filenames,
special characters in filenames)
-->
http://skillfulness.blogspot.com/2008/11/working-with-fat32-in-ubuntu-linux.html
File Creation Dates on Mac OS X: Clash of the Cultures
--> http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/06/27/mac-os-file-creation-dates/
The State of Backup and Cloning Tools under Mac OS X (2006)
-->
http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/
History of rsync on Mac OS X
-->
http://patternbuffer.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/a-history-of-rsync-on-mac-os-x/
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