Re: problems with telling rsync what to delete

2005-06-01 Thread Erik Romijn
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:54 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > > The exclude file list has filenames that are relative to the source > > directory supplied to rsync, so that would be correct. > > If the files are still be deleted, then you've got some kind of an error > in the contents of your --exclud

Re: problems with telling rsync what to delete

2005-05-31 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 06:56:48PM +0200, Erik Romijn wrote: > In the manual I read that when using --delete-after rsync would not > delete files in the excluded files list This is true for any --delete processing, not just --delete-after. > The exclude file list has filenames that are relative t

problems with telling rsync what to delete

2005-05-31 Thread Erik Romijn
Hi, I'm a system manager using rsync 2.6.3 to run backups. One of the main requirements is that the data is GPG encrypted before it is sent to the remote host (and stays encrypted there). As it is impossible to encrypt the entire system (which could be well over 10GB) I built a small script to de