On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > the following behaviour of rsync puzzles me. > > I have the following situation > > <Source>/A this is a symlink ! > > <Dest>/A this is a real directory > > > now > cd <Dest>/A > rsync -auHz -ni --rsh=ssh --delete --exclude='/A/' <source > machine>:<Source>/ . > > shows that it's going to delete the folder <Dest>/A > > Can anybody please explain me why?
I'm not clear on some of your details, but perhaps you could try putting full paths to the dirs/files in your script, including the destination dir. Also, remember that '/A' and '/A/' are not the same wrt the source. g'luck
