you tried --force at all? or -z?
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Ferran Jorba wrote:
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:50:17 +0100
> From: Ferran Jorba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: rsync doesn't delete files (over ssh)
>
> I'm mirroring a whole Linux system, hoping that in the future
> we can have a farm of identical systems from a master one.
>
> Temporarily, I'm using --relative to see the results on an
> Alpha OSF system. The problem is that rsync doesn't delete
> on the client the files removed on the server.
>
> rsync \
> --verbose \
> --verbose \
> --verbose \
> --stats \
> --archive \
> --relative \
> --exclude /proc/ \
> --exclude /dev/ \
> --exclude /tmp/ \
> --cvs-exclude \
> --delete \
> --delete-exclude \
> --compress \
> --rsh=ssh \
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ /home/fjorba/kiosk/obscured.uab.es
>
> Tested both with rsync 2.3.2 and 2.4.6.
>
> I've browsing thru the mail archives and the bugs database, and
> it seems to me that the --delete an --delete-exclude have subtle
> dependencies/incompatibilites with other options, but I haven't
> been able to find the correct ones.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ferran
>
>
