Re: "rsync --delete" won't delete certain files

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Daum
Peter Daum wrote: - The problem only occurs when there is more than 1 file system to sync. When I only backup "/", everything is fine, when I add another source file system, nothing below "/var" will be deleted (I still don't have a clue, why this occurs on &quo

Re: "rsync --delete" won't delete certain files

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Daum
system, nothing below "/var" will be deleted (I still don't have a clue, why this occurs on "/var" but not on other paths) - The issue has been around for quite a while: It has been introduced by some change between rsync 2.6.4 and 2.6.5 Regards,

Re: "rsync --delete" won't delete certain files

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Daum
Hi, Izidor Jerebic wrote: Are there any errors while doing the rsync? I have recently discovered that to create identical copy on mac os x (in the presence of any errors), you need to additionally specify --ignore-errors and --force-delete, otherwise nothing will be deleted (it seems that

"rsync --delete" won't delete certain files

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Daum
ently ;-), I just discovered it when the partition on "/backup/" ran out of space. This happened with rsync 3.03; I also tried 3.05 with the same result. When I tried the same command line using rsync 2.6.3, the leftover data on /backup/var/ was finally deleted. However, I would rather use a re

tricky rsync setup quit working

2008-09-13 Thread Peter Daum
ed via configuration file) Unfortunately, I can't figure out what changed in the meantime that broke this setup, Does anybody have an idea? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Peter Daum -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change