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On 31-10-2010 16:39, Edvinas Valatka wrote: 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.Or: rsync -ndivv -f 'P!p /daily.20101030-0155' --del /tmp/empty_dir/ remote-host::Backups/ Hi Edvinas :) Thanks a lot for your response. I tried all tree of your suggestions, but i get the message: 1045: rsync -ndivv -f 'P!p daily.20101022-2209.5212' --del ~/empty/ io::Backups My rsync client is 3.0.7 but the daemon on my NAS-server has an older version: rsync 2.6.9 (the last one before 3.0). Looking on the web for a 2.6.9 manpage (which i by the way was not able to find at the rsync website), i managed to find out it might be the 'p' (in the previous '-!pr') which causes the problem. Any other hints? |
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