Wierd problem with rysnc.

[Sri Ramkrishna]

Hi Dave,

I have tried for some days to re-produce this, but was not able to. 
However, I believe we may have found the cause of the problem.  Let me
ask you something.

If you have something like this:

a/

in the exclude list
does that exclude everything under that directory or only the first set
of directories underneath it?

sri

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 13:36, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> I tried reproducing it with 
>     cat >exclude-file
>     ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh
>     ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh_shigeki
>     ath_version1/bin/RCS/cse_plot.csh,v
>     ^D
>     mkdir -p d/x/ath_version1/bin/RCS
>     mkdir -p h/x/ath_version1/bin/RCS
>     echo hey >d/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh
>     echo there >h/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh_shigeki
>     echo guy >h/x/ath_version1/bin/RCS/cse_plot.csh,v
>     ln -s cse_plot.csh_shigeki h/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh
>     rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=exclude-file --backup d/x/ h/x/ 
>     echo you >d/x/ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh
>     rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=exclude-file --backup d/x/ h/x/ 
> 
> Rsync changed nothing under "h" except for the timestamps of the directories.
> Can you demonstrate the problem with a reproducible example?  What version
> of rsync?  What operating system?
> 
> - Dave Dykstra
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:17:18PM -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> > Okay, thats pretty fair.  Here is what I'm trying to say.
> > 
> > The source directory tree has:
> > 
> > /a/b/c/d/
> > 
> > which has a bunch of subdirectories (say x,y,z}  in it.  Because we don't 
> > want to mirror every subdirectory in the d/ directory we have individual 
> > rsyncs that copy different subdirectories to a destination tree.
> > 
> > The destination is 
> > /f/g/h/i/
> > 
> > and I have an rsync command that looks
> > like this thats run for each subdirectory in the source {x,y,z etc}.
> > 
> > rsync --archive --delete --backup --suffix=.backup
> > -rsync-path=/some/stdpath/to/rsync --exclude-from=/var/tmp/exclude-file srchost:/a/b/c/d/x/ desthost:/e/f/g/h/x/
> > 
> > we do this for y, z subdirectories etc.
> > 
> > Each of these subdirectories {x,y,z} have certain subdirectories where
> > there are files we want to exclude.  So lets say that the "x" subdirectory
> > has a directory called "ath_version1".  There might be other directories like
> > "ath_version2" also under the x/ directory tree. 
> > 
> > We have an exclude file that looks like this:
> > ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh
> > ath_version1/bin/cse_plot.csh_shigeki
> > ath_version1/bin/RCS/cse_plot.csh,v
> > 
> > On the source side cse_plot.csh is a real file.  On the destination
> > the cse_plot.csh is a symlink that points to cse_plot.csh_shigeki.
> > 
> > When rsync runs, the cse_plot.csh (a symlink) is replaced by the
> > source copy of the cse_plot.csh file.  However, other files are not
> > touched.  cse_plot.csh_shigeki for instance doesn't exist on the source
> > side and is left alone.  We have put other symlinks that point to the
> > cse_plot.csh_shigeki as well in there but those have been deleted not
> > replaced with real files (because they is no corresponding file in the source
> > to replace it)
> > 
> > The symlink cse_plot.csh points to cse_plot.csh_shigeki which is not in RCS.
> > When we made a copy of cse_plot.csh_shigeki and checked in RCS, rsync didn't
> > delete the copy. Seems the rsync can not handle symlink properly.
> > 
> > I sometimes add rsync with a --verbose --verbose --verbose option but the log
> > doesn't tell me anythign about why it deleted the symlink.
> > 
> > Any help would be great.
> > 
> >    sri