rsync 3.0.7 - error deleting directory
Matt McCutchen
matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sat Mar 6 15:09:20 MST 2010
[Going through old email.]
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 08:24 +0100, Philipp Herz - allied internet ag
wrote:
> based on a nightly cronjob we use "rsync --delete" to delete partitial
> directory structure from a backup folder. Sometimes rsync is unable to
> delete structure as told.
>
> rsync: unlink "/backup/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.3" failed: Is a
> directory (21)
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
> (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7]
That's weird, rsync shouldn't be trying to unlink a directory. If you
can still reproduce this, please post strace output for the generator so
we can see what is going on.
--
Matt
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