On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:39:21AM +1000, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>
> I seem to be having a problem with --delete-excluded or I'm probably just
> doing something wrong, I'm sure it's the second. Here's what I'm doing.
>
> I have an nfs mounted volume under:
>
> /mnt/nfs
>
> and I would like to sync a local volume with the contents of
> /mnt/nfs. /mnt/nfs changes quite often and files and directories get
> removed, so I'd like whatever the directory structure is in /mnt/nfs to be
> mirrors on the local volume. Using --delete-excluded I thought would do
> this for me. What I'm seeing though is that it works for files that have
> changes, but not directory structures that have changed. For example:
>
> if I have /mnt/nfs/RedHat/RPMS/filename-0.1.i386.rpm and it changes to
> /mnt/nfs/RedHat/RPMS/filename-0.2.i386.rpm, this works fine. The old
> version is removed from the local volume and the new version is
> sync'd. But if I have /mnt/nfs/ks/ks.img and /mnt/nfs/ks gets removed
> completely from the nfs volume, then when I run rsync, rsync does touch
> the /mnt/LOCAL/ks/ks.img. So what am I doing wrong? Here's my exact
> command line:
>
> rsync -vrulHpogDtSz --delete-excluded /mnt/nfs/* /mnt/LOCAL
>
> Also is there a switch to rsync that just summarizes all these
> options? Something that just says preserves everything?
>
> Oh, I'm using rsync 2.4.3 on both sides.
If you don't have any --exclude or --include then --delete-excluded is
exactly the same as --delete.
Your problem is the "*" in "/mnt/nfs/*". Change that to "/mnt/nfs/" to
direct rsync to look through the entire /mnt/nfs directory and not just
at the currently existing files/directories there.
- Dave Dykstra
