> In my backup script I have noticed nothing gets deleted on the remote > end even though I have --delete and --delete-excluded. Did I miss > anything obvious here?
Not sure if this applies to you, but... One thing I noticed about trying to use --delete in combination with -b --backup-dir is that files do not get deleted if there is already another hard link to them on the target side. As I understand it, this is not so much a bug in rsync as it is a somewhat non-intuitive POSIX behavior in my operating system (Linux). Basically, if it can, backup just renames the file instead of copying it. But on my system, if a and b are both hard links to the same inode, mv a b does *not* unlink a! It has no effect, in fact. My solution was to make two rsync passes, the first with -b --backup-dir but no --delete, the second without -b --backup-dir but with --delete. At some point, though, maybe we should patch rsync to make it do the intuitive thing in this case. Does anyone else have experience with this? Regards, Mike -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
