Hello, I'm backing up a file server using rsync from a cron job, which recently started to give me errors like:
delete_file: rmdir "/some/path" failed: Directory not empty symlink "/some/path" -> "/some/other/path" failed: File exists Looking at the involved files and directories, it looks like the user decided to replace a directory with a symlink, but rsync doesn't seem to delete the directory on the backup machine if that happens. I tried to reproduce the problem: server1:~ # mkdir /tmp/test server1:~ # touch /tmp/test/foo server1:~ # touch /tmp/test/bar server1:~ # backuphost:~ # rsync -avzH server1:/tmp/test . receiving file list ... done test/ test/bar test/foo sent 70 bytes received 164 bytes 468.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 backuphost:~ # server1:~ # mv /tmp/test /tmp/test2 server1:~ # ln -s /tmp/test2 /tmp/test server1:~ # backuphost:~ # rsync -avzH server1:/tmp/test . receiving file list ... done rsync: delete_file: rmdir "/root/test" failed: Directory not empty (39) sent 20 bytes received 65 bytes 170.00 bytes/sec total size is 10 speedup is 0.12 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1173) backuphost:~ # I've been using rsync 2.6.6 on both machines. - Is there some option I've been missing? Any help would be appreciated. Hanno -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
