Re: --relative clobbers --delete

2011-08-02 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Kevin Korb wrote: > 1. Update rsync. You are MANY years out of date. Updating rsync is not > going to break whatever obsolete other stuff you are running. Not an option in this case, but thank you for the suggestion anyway :) > 2. If you are rsyncing from / --relative doe

Re: --relative clobbers --delete

2011-08-02 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 3 things... 1. Update rsync. You are MANY years out of date. Updating rsync is not going to break whatever obsolete other stuff you are running. 2. If you are rsyncing from / --relative doesn't do anything. 3. --delete is aborted if almost any err

--relative clobbers --delete

2011-08-02 Thread Chuck Wolber
Hi, We back up a lot of machines with varying version of rsync installed on them. The oldest machine (hopefully soon to be retired) is running rsync version 2.5.7 (protocol version 26). We back this machine up from "/" onwards with a few excludes in there. I noticed today that whenever we use