delete not working with multiple source directories

[Robert DuToit]

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 <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:

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> Does --relative fix it?  You almost always want --relative with
> multiple sources.
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> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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