rsync deleted all my important docs...

[Sanjay Acharya]

Note that the deletion happened on my backup disk (the corrupted filesystem
on the source is another disk)


Sanjay Acharya wrote:
> 
> How is rsync supposed to behave when I give the --delete-excluded?
> Recently I lost several of my important documents because of a corrupted
> file system on the source. Here are some logs,
> 
> * Rsync gets an IO error on one of the folders,
> 
> --
> rsync: readlink_stat("/mnt/raid-backup/Documents/Finance") failed:
> Input/output error (5)
> --
> 
> * It starts deleting all my financial documents,
> 
> --
> deleting Documents/Finance/Tax/2005/2005_Kansas_Return.pdf
> deleting Documents/Finance/Tax/2005/2005_Federal_Return.pdf
> --
> 
> Am I doing something wrong in giving the --delete option?
> 

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