rsync is not deleting subdirectories

[Matt McCutchen]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:04 -0400, mike mitchell wrote:
> Hi. I'm having a problem with rsync not deleting subdirectories that
> exist at the destination but which have been removed/renamed on the
> source. I'm running 64-bit Arch, rsync 3.0.7, and am trying to back up
> /home to an external USB drive. Both drives are JFS. Example, where
> /media/8c4d270d-6139-4fed-8a32-2df8d28acdf3/ is the mount point for
> the external drive on which a back-up already exists:
> 
> mike at robots mike]$ pwd
> /media/8c4d270d-6139-4fed-8a32-2df8d28acdf3/mike
> [mike at robots mike]$ mkdir deleteme1
> [mike at robots mike]$ cd deleteme1/
> [mike at robots deleteme1]$ touch deleteme1.txt
> [mike at robots deleteme1]$ cd ../Desktop
> [mike at robots Desktop]$ mkdir deleteme2
> [mike at robots Desktop]$ cd deleteme2/
> [mike at robots deleteme2]$ touch deleteme2.txt
> [mike at robots deleteme2]$ rsync -avn --delete /home/mike/
> /media/8c4d270d-6139-4fed-8a32-2df8d28acdf3/mike | grep deletem
> deleting deleteme1/deleteme1.txt
> deleting deleteme1/
> [mike at robots deleteme2]$
> 
> What I would expect is for deleteme1 and 2 to both be deleted, but
> rsync is not deleting directories outside of the top level of the
> backup.

Strange.  Can you reproduce the problem with a different source and
destination?  Try increasing the verbosity to -vvv, and search the
output for a line saying "delete_in_dir(Desktop)" (indicating that rsync
is considering files in that directory for deletion) as well as any
mention of the deletem* files.

-- 
Matt