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 "/var" but not on other paths)

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

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Daum
Hi, I still couldn't find a really simple test case but at least I can provide some more details regarding this obscure issue: - 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 b

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

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

2009-03-23 Thread Izidor Jerebic
Hello, Peter, 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 as soon as

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

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Daum
Hi, as I just discovered, in recent versions of rsync the "--delete" option seems to not work in certain cases. I couldn't come up with a simple scenario to reproduce the problem, so I'll have to tell the whole story: I use rsync to regularly backup a system onto other disks. The filesystems I w