Re: Understanding rsync --delete behavior

2012-06-17 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My guess is that you did it wrong once in the past and have an extra /mnt/AS5/AS5 on the target that is being purged. Take a look for that possibility and also try again with an addition -v and with - --itemize-changes. On 06/17/12 20:55, Richard Zin

Understanding rsync --delete behavior

2012-06-17 Thread Richard Zinar
Hi, When running an rsync command of the form: $ rsync -avn --delete remotehost:/mnt/volsw_dev/AS5/ /mnt/volsw_dev/AS5 rsync wants to delete a slew of files and directories. Partial output includes, for example: deleting AS5/zeromq/2.2.0/share/man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 deleting AS5/zeromq/2.2.0/sha