Re: --delete-missing-args doesn't delete

[MI via rsync]

Merci Francis.

Yes, that would probably be a way to do it, but I guess it needs 
correctly escaping the special characters which may appear in file 
names. (Yes, there are people who use "*" in file names, etc.)


So what I'm doing now is using neither --delete-missing-arg nor 
--files-from, but instead making hard links to the wanted files in a 
temporary directory on the source, then rsync-ing that temp dir, and 
then deleting the hard links in the temp dir.


It's a bit convoluted, but seems to work.

Thanks,

MI

 Original Message  (francis.montag...@inria.fr, 
2019-04-25 13:26)



Hi.
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:35:15 +0200 MI via rsync wrote:


If someone has a good suggestion on how to rsync a list of files and
delete from the destination any file that is not listed in --files-from,
that would be welcome.

Assuming you are talking about files in a same source directory, you
can do:

- generate a file (KEEP_FILE) with the list of files you want
- call: rsync ... --include-from KEEP_FILE \
 --delete --delete-excluded \
 SOURCE_DIR/ DESTINATION_DIR

KEEP_FILE should have the format:

+ /keep1/***
+ /keep2/***
...
- *

leading / to match only at the first level

/*** to match any level of sub-directory (if keep1 ... are
directories)



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Re: --delete-missing-args doesn't delete

[Francis.Montagnac--- via rsync]

Hi.
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:35:15 +0200 MI via rsync wrote:

> If someone has a good suggestion on how to rsync a list of files and 
> delete from the destination any file that is not listed in --files-from, 
> that would be welcome.

Assuming you are talking about files in a same source directory, you
can do:

   - generate a file (KEEP_FILE) with the list of files you want
   - call: rsync ... --include-from KEEP_FILE \
 --delete --delete-excluded \
 SOURCE_DIR/ DESTINATION_DIR

KEEP_FILE should have the format:

+ /keep1/***
+ /keep2/***
...
- *

leading / to match only at the first level

/*** to match any level of sub-directory (if keep1 ... are
directories)

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Re: --delete-missing-args doesn't delete

[MI via rsync]

Thank you Kevin.

It seems that I misunderstood the purpose of this --delete-missing-args 
option.


If someone has a good suggestion on how to rsync a list of files and 
delete from the destination any file that is not listed in --files-from, 
that would be welcome.


Thanks,

MI


 Original Message  (Kevin Korb via rsync, 2019-04-23 14:11)


--files-from will delete files from the destination that are listed but
not existing in the source.  It isn't delete what isn't listed.

On 4/23/19 5:29 AM, MI via rsync wrote:

I'm generating a list of files to sync, and would like all the files not
in my list to be deleted from the destination. I thought that
--delete-missing-args would do just that, but it doesn't delete anything.

Would someone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong?

This is what I tried :

~$ mkdir -p /tmp/source /tmp/dest

~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo "keep $i"      > /tmp/source/keep$i; done

~$ for i in {4..5}; do echo "to remove $i" > /tmp/source/to-delete-$i; done

~$ rsync -va /tmp/source/ /tmp/dest/
sending incremental file list
./
keep1
keep2
keep3
to-delete-4
to-delete-5

sent 410 bytes  received 114 bytes  1,048.00 bytes/sec
total size is 45  speedup is 0.09

~$ for i in {1..3}; do touch /tmp/source/keep$i; done

~$ cd /tmp/source/

/tmp/source$ find . -name "keep*" | tee /tmp/source/file-list
./keep2
./keep1
./keep3

Now, using my file-list which does not include the "to-delete*" files, I
hoped that these would be deleted. The new files were correctly copied,
but nothing was deleted:

/tmp/source$ rsync -vva --delete --delete-missing-args --force
--files-from=/tmp/source/file-list . /tmp/dest/
building file list ... done
delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
./
keep1
keep2
keep3
total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=21

sent 259 bytes  received 143 bytes  804.00 bytes/sec
total size is 21  speedup is 0.05

/tmp/source$ ls -Al /tmp/dest/
total 20
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi  7 Apr 22 23:43 keep1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi  7 Apr 22 23:43 keep2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi  7 Apr 22 23:43 keep3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi 12 Apr 22 23:42 to-delete-4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi 12 Apr 22 23:42 to-delete-5


The files not in my --files-from list are still at the destination.

Thanks for any help,

MI


PS: my version of rsync :

~$ rsync --version
rsync  version 3.1.1  protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2014 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, prealloc






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Re: --delete-missing-args doesn't delete

[Kevin Korb via rsync]

--files-from will delete files from the destination that are listed but
not existing in the source.  It isn't delete what isn't listed.

On 4/23/19 5:29 AM, MI via rsync wrote:
> I'm generating a list of files to sync, and would like all the files not
> in my list to be deleted from the destination. I thought that
> --delete-missing-args would do just that, but it doesn't delete anything.
> 
> Would someone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> This is what I tried :
> 
> ~$ mkdir -p /tmp/source /tmp/dest
> 
> ~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo "keep $i"      > /tmp/source/keep$i; done
> 
> ~$ for i in {4..5}; do echo "to remove $i" > /tmp/source/to-delete-$i; done
> 
> ~$ rsync -va /tmp/source/ /tmp/dest/
> sending incremental file list
> ./
> keep1
> keep2
> keep3
> to-delete-4
> to-delete-5
> 
> sent 410 bytes  received 114 bytes  1,048.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 45  speedup is 0.09
> 
> ~$ for i in {1..3}; do touch /tmp/source/keep$i; done
> 
> ~$ cd /tmp/source/
> 
> /tmp/source$ find . -name "keep*" | tee /tmp/source/file-list
> ./keep2
> ./keep1
> ./keep3
> 
> Now, using my file-list which does not include the "to-delete*" files, I
> hoped that these would be deleted. The new files were correctly copied,
> but nothing was deleted:
> 
> /tmp/source$ rsync -vva --delete --delete-missing-args --force
> --files-from=/tmp/source/file-list . /tmp/dest/
> building file list ... done
> delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
> ./
> keep1
> keep2
> keep3
> total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=21
> 
> sent 259 bytes  received 143 bytes  804.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 21  speedup is 0.05
> 
> /tmp/source$ ls -Al /tmp/dest/
> total 20
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi  7 Apr 22 23:43 keep1
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi  7 Apr 22 23:43 keep2
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi  7 Apr 22 23:43 keep3
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi 12 Apr 22 23:42 to-delete-4
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mi mi 12 Apr 22 23:42 to-delete-5
> 
> 
> The files not in my --files-from list are still at the destination.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> MI
> 
> 
> PS: my version of rsync :
> 
> ~$ rsync --version
> rsync  version 3.1.1  protocol version 31
> Copyright (C) 1996-2014 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
> Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
> Capabilities:
>     64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
>     socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
>     append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, prealloc
> 
> 

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