Howdy,
I've been having a bear of a time tracking this down. I'm currently using
rsync to back a bunch of servers up to a ZFS pool on a server. I recently
noticed my deltas between ZFS snapshots seemed a bit large, so I started
looking more closely at what was being backed up. Looking at some Maildirs, I
found that messages (files) that had been deleted on the server were not being
deleted by rsync. My flags include a "--delete" option, and I also tried the
other delete options (delete-during, delete-after) with no luck.
If I manually run rsync with the same flags, but specify the direct path to a
user's Maildir, files are deleted properly. My script runs from the root of
the filesystem though, and relies on an included exclude file to negate things
I don't want to back up.
How can I track this down?
My command line looks like so:
rsync --archive --stats --numeric-ids --delete --partial --inplace --hard-links
--exclude-from=/usr/local/rsb/conf/exclude.default.fbsd
--rsync-path="/usr/local/bin/rsync" --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh -p 22 -i
/usr/local/rsb/conf/id_dsa" --log-file=/var/log/rsbackup/$RSYNC_SERVER.log
back...@$rsync_server:/ /tank/backups/$RSYNC_SERVER (note, no trailing slash on
destdir)
The exclude file looks like this:
/proc/*
/dev/*
/var/log/**.gz
/var/log/**.bz2
/var/db/mysql/**
/home/spork/admin/**
/entropy
/cdrom
/mnt
/dist/**
/media/**
/rescue/**
/spool/obj/**
/sys/**
/usr/src/**
/usr/obj/**
/usr/ports/**
/usr/local/dcc/log/**
Mail lives in /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/user/
Logging is enabled, and here's a snippet of the log for a particular maildir
I'm watching:
(user's maildir)
2010/02/12 01:34:32 [71490] .d..t......
spool/jails/mailbak.example.com/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/exampleuser/Maildir/
(some courier-related files)
2010/02/12 01:34:32 [71490] >f.st......
spool/jails/mailbak.example.com/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/exampleuser/Maildir/courierpop3dsizelist
2010/02/12 01:34:32 [71490] >f.st......
spool/jails/mailbak.example.com/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/exampleuser/Maildir/maildirsize
(read mail directory)
2010/02/12 01:34:32 [71490] .d..t......
spool/jails/mailbak.example.com/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/exampleuser/Maildir/cur/
(rsync copying files to destination)
2010/02/12 01:34:32 [71490] >f+++++++++
spool/jails/mailbak.example.com/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/exampleuser/Maildir/cur/1265857445.23118.mailhost.example.com,S=196114:2,S
2010/02/12 01:34:32 [71490] >f+++++++++
spool/jails/mailbak.example.com/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/exampleuser/Maildir/cur/1265857724.27538.mailhost.example.com,S=65542:2,S
The rest of the log continues like this, just files being added, nothing
deleted.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Charles
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