Sorry, I think I wasn't much clear. Here is the exact issue:<br><br>destHost#> ls /tmp/mydir/2008<br>file mydir3 new preserve<br><br>The below command deletes the "/tmp/mydir/2008/mydir3" directory.<br>
<br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">sourceHost#/tmp/mydir></span> rsync -avz --relative --delete --include='+ /2008/.' --filter='H /2008/mydir3' --exclude='- /2008/preserve' 2008/. destHost:/tmp/mydir<br>
sending incremental file list<br>2008/<br>deleting 2008/mydir3/<br><br>sent 138 bytes received 17 bytes 34.44 bytes/sec<br>total size is 0 speedup is 0.00<br><br>The below command doesn't delete the "/tmp/mydir/2008/mydir3" directory but deletes "/tmp/mydir/2008/new/mydir3". Is there any way to tell rsync to delete "/tmp/mydir/2008/mydir3" directory from below command?<br>
<br style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">sourceHost#/tmp/mydir/2008> </span>rsync -avz --relative --delete --include='+ /new/.' --filter='H /mydir3' new/. destHost:/tmp/mydir/2008<br>
sending incremental file list<br><br>sent 73 bytes received 13 bytes 9.05 bytes/sec<br>total size is 0 speedup is 0.00<br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">sourceHost#/tmp/mydir/2008></span> rsync -avz --relative --delete --include='+ /new/.' --filter='H /mydir3' new/. destHost:/tmp/mydir/2008<br>
sending incremental file list<br>new/<br>deleting new/mydir3/<br><br>sent 76 bytes received 16 bytes 16.73 bytes/sec<br>total size is 0 speedup is 0.00<br><br>Thanks, Paresh<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:55 AM, paresh masani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:masaniparesh@gmail.com" target="_blank">masaniparesh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br><br>Basically, I want to preserve some of directories on destination side conditionally and hence, I choose to use --filter option mentioned in rsync man pages. I noticed that --filter option works as expected when I don't have --relative option used but in below case it doesn't work.<br>
<br>rsync -avz --relative --delete --filter='H /mydir2' --exclude='- /preserve' mydir1/. destHost:/tmp/mydir<br><br>I want to sync "/tmp/mydir/mydir1", delete "mydir2" and protect and hide "preserve" directory on destination host.<br>
<br>I noticed that rsync doesn't deletes the "mydir2" on destination host but if I remove --relative then it does. Could anyone tell me is there any dependencies between Hide and Protect flag with --relative option? How to make rsync to delete directories with H flag set and --relative option specified?<br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br>
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