On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:34:48PM -0500, Eli wrote: > It would build the file list and copy over some files, but not > everything. Even with --delete-excluded it still didn't delete files > on the dest server that weren't on the src system.
Then you must have done something wrong, such as still specifying --files-from instead of using --include-from. The --delete option only affects directories that rsync has recursively sent the contents of, and using --files-from usually defines a list of files to send, not dirs. > I can't generate a list of files to delete because they don't exist, > I'd have to compare against the list of files I want to copy over and > delete anything not in that list which is basically what I'm trying to > have rsync do for me. Since you said before that you'd be satisfied with rsync deleting everything not in the --files-from list, all you need to do is to save the prior files-from list and use it like this: find ... >new_list rsync ... --files-from=new_list ... remote:... cat old_list new_list new_list | sort -u | ssh remote xargs rm mv new_list old_list (Specifying "new_list" twice is not a typo -- it makes any new items duplicated so that the "sort -u" won't output them.) ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
