Hi, On 5/12/18 12:36 am, Fabian Cenedese via rsync wrote: > I'm looking for a way to exclude and delete some items but not delete > other items. Use case: > > I'm on Windows where there are folders like recycle.bin and system > volume information on every drive. I can exclude them while backing > up my data drive. But I now also have other data that is excluded > and that I want to delete from my existing backup. However if I use > --delete-excluded then rsync tries to delete the (write protected) > system volume information from the destination disk. > > Is there a way to get around this with only rsync parameters? > Do I have to move the destination into a directory to get rid of > the interfering drive root folders in the sync process?
Perhaps use read only attributes on the items that you don't want to allow to be deleted? Also maybe user .rsync-filter ? Make sure you experiment with good backups, just in case it goes wrong somehow. Hope that helps. Cheers A.
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