As far as I know --force has no effect anymore because --delete was
redesigned since it was originally written (this is explained in the man
page). At least I haven't been able to come up with any examples of where
it makes a difference. -z certainly would have no effect on whether or not
files are deleted.
What might make a difference is the "--ignore-errors" option. Hmm, I see
it is mentioned in the summary in the man page but not mentioned in details
section. That's a man page bug. Can you fix that, Martin? The --delete
section of the man page does talk about being automatically disabled if
there are any i/o errors; --ignore-errors turns that off.
- Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:44:44AM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote:
>
>
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
