[Going through old email.] On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 08:24 +0100, Philipp Herz - allied internet ag wrote: > based on a nightly cronjob we use "rsync --delete" to delete partitial > directory structure from a backup folder. Sometimes rsync is unable to > delete structure as told. > > rsync: unlink "/backup/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.3" failed: Is a > directory (21) > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) > (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7]
That's weird, rsync shouldn't be trying to unlink a directory. If you can still reproduce this, please post strace output for the generator so we can see what is going on. -- 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
