HI kevin, No luck with —relative. I’ll try and see where in the code —delete gets bypassed.
Rob On Aug 16, 2014, at 9:27 PM, Kevin Korb <k...@sanitarium.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Does --relative fix it? You almost always want --relative with > multiple sources. > > On 08/16/2014 09:10 PM, Robert DuToit wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I have lately heard from a couple of people that delete option was >> not deleting extraneous files on destination. This only happens >> when there are several source directories and at destination some >> show delete working and others not. I can not reproduce the issue >> so it is hard to pinpoint. >> >> one example: >> >> This is on OSX Mavericks running rsync 3.0.9 with the usual osx >> patches and options >> >> rsync -aHAXN --fileflags --force-change --protect-decmpfs >> --exclude-from=/tmp/BLexclusions.txt --stats —delete —progress -vvv >> /Applications /Library /Users /Volumes/Backup >> >> So with /Applications /Library /Users being source, only >> /Applications shows files being deleted. Removing /Applications and >> the two other directories work with delete fine. Even changing the >> order has same result. The exclude file shows only one directory in >> /Applications. >> >> I asked user to try different (new) external drive - same results. >> >> >> I’m stumped as there are no rsync errors. Rsync progress shows >> everything fine and mentions files deleted in /Applications and >> nowhere else. >> >> I am not very good with rsync source but perhaps there are areas I >> could look where --delete might be disabled for whatever reasons? >> >> There are usually ACL's on both /Applications and /Library in OSX >> >> 0: group:everyone deny delete >> >> but this is overridden by rsync as root any ways… usual regular >> permissions on all directories as well. >> >> Any thoughts appreciated >> >> Thanks, Rob >> >> >> > > - -- > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ > Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 > Systems Administrator Internet: > FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) > Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) > Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ > PGP public key available on web site. > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iEYEARECAAYFAlPwBRsACgkQVKC1jlbQAQcg4QCg20zvWlxWMlKwVZ0VFyiYPFQ0 > tB0AoJ6M15dVXVyCbdnSweNLfwKMpAC2 > =PY5O > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
