rsync --delete isn't deleting files

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sun Jul 13 01:49:22 GMT 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 03:48 +0100, Tiago Marques wrote:
> Hmm, looks like I'm not done with this, yet.
> With rsync 3.02, it works fine:
> 
> rsync --exclude='/*/' --delete-before -tvlpr
> rsync://rsync.sabayonlinux.org/SabayonLinux/ /storage/mirrors/
> 
> But not with the 2.6.9 version :|
> I just get this, with the mirror completely outdated:
> 
>              receiving file list ... done
> 
>              sent 92 bytes  received 518 bytes  93.85 bytes/sec
>              total size is 11592052049  speedup is 19003364.01

I ran your command with rsync 2.6.9 and -n (I didn't want to actually
download the files) and didn't see any obvious problem.  Please increase
the verbosity to -vvv and post the output you get.

Matt
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