On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:04 -0400, mike mitchell wrote: > Hi. I'm having a problem with rsync not deleting subdirectories that > exist at the destination but which have been removed/renamed on the > source. I'm running 64-bit Arch, rsync 3.0.7, and am trying to back up > /home to an external USB drive. Both drives are JFS. Example, where > /media/8c4d270d-6139-4fed-8a32-2df8d28acdf3/ is the mount point for > the external drive on which a back-up already exists: > > m...@robots mike]$ pwd > /media/8c4d270d-6139-4fed-8a32-2df8d28acdf3/mike > [m...@robots mike]$ mkdir deleteme1 > [m...@robots mike]$ cd deleteme1/ > [m...@robots deleteme1]$ touch deleteme1.txt > [m...@robots deleteme1]$ cd ../Desktop > [m...@robots Desktop]$ mkdir deleteme2 > [m...@robots Desktop]$ cd deleteme2/ > [m...@robots deleteme2]$ touch deleteme2.txt > [m...@robots deleteme2]$ rsync -avn --delete /home/mike/ > /media/8c4d270d-6139-4fed-8a32-2df8d28acdf3/mike | grep deletem > deleting deleteme1/deleteme1.txt > deleting deleteme1/ > [m...@robots deleteme2]$ > > What I would expect is for deleteme1 and 2 to both be deleted, but > rsync is not deleting directories outside of the top level of the > backup.
Strange. Can you reproduce the problem with a different source and destination? Try increasing the verbosity to -vvv, and search the output for a line saying "delete_in_dir(Desktop)" (indicating that rsync is considering files in that directory for deletion) as well as any mention of the deletem* files. -- 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
