Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] some two more rsync questions

2010-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch 
On 11/19/10 00:08:06, Mick wrote:
 On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I have two problems with rsync
  
  1st) if I give both commandline options  -u and -c
   it looks as if a file which is more recent but different
   on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c
   Is that true?
  
  2nd) There is a symlink A on SourceDir which refers to a 
 directory
   On the other hand, A is the name of a (real) subdirectory of
   DestDir
  
   Now doing
   rsync -auHz --delete --exclude=/A SourceDir/  DestDir/
   does remove A on DestDir - why ?
 
 I don't know the answer to your 1st question, but I think that the
 answer to 
 your 2nd question is that A on the DestDir is removed because of 
 the
 --
 delete option.  According to the man page:
 
 --delete   delete extraneous files from dest dirs.
 

Thanks Mick, but --exclude protects against deletion. My problem was
that I did use
rsync -auHz --delete --exclude=/A/SourceDir/  DestDir/
.^

because A is a directory on DestDir. But it turned out that this
does delete A on DestDir since A is a symlink on SourceDir and the
include/exclude pattern is applied to the SourceDir only.

Helmut.



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Helmut Jarausch
Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] some two more rsync questions

2010-11-18 Thread Mick 
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have two problems with rsync
 
 1st) if I give both commandline options  -u and -c
  it looks as if a file which is more recent but different
  on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c
  Is that true?
 
 2nd) There is a symlink A on SourceDir which refers to a directory
  On the other hand, A is the name of a (real) subdirectory of
  DestDir
 
  Now doing
  rsync -auHz --delete --exclude=/A SourceDir/  DestDir/
  does remove A on DestDir - why ?

I don't know the answer to your 1st question, but I think that the answer to 
your 2nd question is that A on the DestDir is removed because of the --
delete option.  According to the man page:

--delete   delete extraneous files from dest dirs.

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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[gentoo-user] [OT] some two more rsync questions

2010-11-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch 
Hi,

I have two problems with rsync

1st) if I give both commandline options  -u and -c
 it looks as if a file which is more recent but different
 on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c
 Is that true?

2nd) There is a symlink A on SourceDir which refers to a directory
 On the other hand, A is the name of a (real) subdirectory of 
 DestDir

 Now doing
 rsync -auHz --delete --exclude=/A SourceDir/  DestDir/
 does remove A on DestDir - why ?

I'm using rsync-3.0.7 .

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.