On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:39 +0200, Edvinas Valatka wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:15:37 +0100 > Vahsen Beheer <beh...@vahsen.nl> wrote: > > 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
> Or: rsync -ndivv -f 'P!p /daily.20101030-0155' --del /tmp/empty_dir/ > remote-host::Backups/ Yes, there are a number of variations that work. I had another one here: https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-November/019050.html -- 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
