(fwd from david@interactiveinstitute.se) Bugs in rsync

[Martin Pool]

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From: David Jonsson <david at interactiveinstitute.se>
Subject: Bugs in rsync 
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:38:59 +0200 (CEST)
To: Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org>, Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org>

First, Thansk for a great tool!

I run rsync supplied with RedHat 7.3
 rsync --version
rsync  version 2.5.4  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, 
IPv6,
              64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums


and I experience the followinf errors when I issue this command
rsync -a --delete * /mnt/navhdb2

1.
Files beginning with . will not get deleted at the destination if they 
don't exist in the source. (I detected that i leaves erased .forward 
files) 

2. 
I hade replaced a directory with a symbolic link at the source but the 
destination kept the directory.

Please respond to me just so I know the reasons of my problems.

David



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Martin