On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:15:37 +0100 Vahsen Beheer <beh...@vahsen.nl> wrote:
> Hi! > > I am backing up (using --link-dest, hard links) to a NAS which has > an 'rsync' daemon running. I do not have ssh access to this > Storage-device. Part of my script needs to delete whole remote > directory trees. This seems difficult with rsync. > > > A nice trick is to make an empty source directory: > > rsync -a --delete /tmp/empty-dir/ > remote-host::Backups/daily.20101030-0155 > > > This works perfect. It deletes the contents of destination. However, > need it to also delete the destination directory its-self. > > This seems something very easy, but after searching for many hours in > the manual, FAQ, Web and forum did not reveal a solution. > > > Is it possible to have rsync also delete the 'destination-directory' ? > (Or do i need to work from its parent-directory of the destination - > here the module itsself ? Or do something with filters?) > > The next also does not work (it deletes all! from the Backups module): > > rsync -a --exclude='/***' --include='/daily.20101030-0155/' > --delete /tmp/empty-dir/ remote-host::Backups > > > Any tips? Did anyone ever tried this? :) > Thanks a lot in advance! > Robert > > > PS: I also looked into the --prune-empty-dirs option, without success > though. > > > > > > Maybe better: rsync -ndivv -f '-!pr /daily.20101030-0155' --del /tmp/empty_dir/ remote-host::Backups/ -- 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
