Hi Dave, I have tried for some days to re-produce this, but was not able to. However, I believe we may have found the cause of the problem. Let me ask you something.
If you have something like this: a/ in the exclude list does that exclude everything under that directory or only the first set of directories underneath it? sri On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 13:36, Dave Dykstra wrote: > I tried reproducing it with > cat >exclude-file > ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh > ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh_shigeki > ath_version1/bin/RCS/cse_plot.csh,v > ^D > mkdir -p d/x/ath_version1/bin/RCS > mkdir -p h/x/ath_version1/bin/RCS > echo hey >d/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh > echo there >h/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh_shigeki > echo guy >h/x/ath_version1/bin/RCS/cse_plot.csh,v > ln -s cse_plot.csh_shigeki h/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh > rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=exclude-file --backup d/x/ h/x/ > echo you >d/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh > rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=exclude-file --backup d/x/ h/x/ > > Rsync changed nothing under "h" except for the timestamps of the directories. > Can you demonstrate the problem with a reproducible example? What version > of rsync? What operating system? > > - Dave Dykstra > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:17:18PM -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > > Okay, thats pretty fair. Here is what I'm trying to say. > > > > The source directory tree has: > > > > /a/b/c/d/ > > > > which has a bunch of subdirectories (say x,y,z} in it. Because we don't > > want to mirror every subdirectory in the d/ directory we have individual > > rsyncs that copy different subdirectories to a destination tree. > > > > The destination is > > /f/g/h/i/ > > > > and I have an rsync command that looks > > like this thats run for each subdirectory in the source {x,y,z etc}. > > > > rsync --archive --delete --backup --suffix=.backup > > -rsync-path=/some/stdpath/to/rsync --exclude-from=/var/tmp/exclude-file >srchost:/a/b/c/d/x/ desthost:/e/f/g/h/x/ > > > > we do this for y, z subdirectories etc. > > > > Each of these subdirectories {x,y,z} have certain subdirectories where > > there are files we want to exclude. So lets say that the "x" subdirectory > > has a directory called "ath_version1". There might be other directories like > > "ath_version2" also under the x/ directory tree. > > > > We have an exclude file that looks like this: > > ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh > > ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh_shigeki > > ath_version1/bin/RCS/cse_plot.csh,v > > > > On the source side cse_plot.csh is a real file. On the destination > > the cse_plot.csh is a symlink that points to cse_plot.csh_shigeki. > > > > When rsync runs, the cse_plot.csh (a symlink) is replaced by the > > source copy of the cse_plot.csh file. However, other files are not > > touched. cse_plot.csh_shigeki for instance doesn't exist on the source > > side and is left alone. We have put other symlinks that point to the > > cse_plot.csh_shigeki as well in there but those have been deleted not > > replaced with real files (because they is no corresponding file in the source > > to replace it) > > > > The symlink cse_plot.csh points to cse_plot.csh_shigeki which is not in RCS. > > When we made a copy of cse_plot.csh_shigeki and checked in RCS, rsync didn't > > delete the copy. Seems the rsync can not handle symlink properly. > > > > I sometimes add rsync with a --verbose --verbose --verbose option but the log > > doesn't tell me anythign about why it deleted the symlink. > > > > Any help would be great. > > > > sri