On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 12:27 -0700, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > I run a nightly script that rsync's my Mac to my Linux backup server. > > I ran out of room on my backup server. So I started to investigate. I > found that the /backup folder on my backup server was almost twice > as big as the directory that I was backing up. I looked at the files and > found stuff in the backup that I had deleted on the Mac a long time ago. > > Apparently RSYNC is not deleting, or at least not deleting everything. > > This command I am using: > > rsync -az -e ssh --delete --exclude-from=ExcFile /Users/jonathan [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/home/jonathan/backup
Would adding --delete-excluded do anything to help here? > > > Can any rsync gurus out there tell me what I might be doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Jonathan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
