On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:01:59AM +0100, Palmans Pepijn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using rsync for a couple of things but I am at a point where I could > not find a solution for my problem. > > this is what I want to do: > > rsync only the files i_* from a directory from machine A to machine Bi > and delete them from machine B if they on longer exist on machine A. > > so I use the command: > > rsync -azv --stats -e ssh --delete i_* user@host:/dir/ > > When using this command the files starting with i_ will get placed on the > remote server or even updated when I change them but if I delete a file on > machine A it will not be deleted on machine B. > This is only a problem if I use i_* as my source. If i sync whole > directories (recursive or not) it's no problem at all to get files deleted > on the other end.
That is expected behavior. Rsync would have no way of knowing that it should delete just the missing i_* files or all files in the remote directory. > Is there anything to do about this ? Not if you have any other files that don't start with i_* in the remote directory that you want to keep. If you don't you could use rsync -azv --stats -e ssh \ --include 'i_*' --exclude '*' --delete-excluded . user@host:/dir/ but that will delete all files except the i_* files in host:/dir/. - Dave Dykstra