Rsync of several directories doesn't delete files

[Daniel Ramaley]

That worked. Thank you for the help. My rsync line now looks like this:

rsync -avvR --rsh=ssh --delete --exclude-from=/tmp/excludes.daily \
    /. backup.lib.drake.edu:/home/backup/www/

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:09:59 -0600 tim.conway at philips.com wrote:

> Dan:  try changing your commandline a bit.  I don't know the code well 
> enough to explain why, but I think this will work better:
> rsync -avR --rsh=ssh --delete --exclude-from=/tmp/excludes.daily /. 
> backup:/home/backup/www/.
> For some reason, naming the directory inside itself seems to make things
> work better.
> 
> Tim Conway
> tim.conway at philips.com
> 
> 
> Daniel Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU>
> Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
> 09/19/2002 03:49 PM
> Please respond to daniel.ramaley
>  
>         To:     rsync at lists.samba.org
>         cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
>         Subject:        Rsync of several directories doesn't delete files
>         Classification: 
> 
> Hello. I'm trying to use rsync to keep a backup of a web server (named
> "www") on a separate machine (named "backup"). "Www" is running Trustix
> Linux 1.5 (kernel 2-2-20-2tr) with rsync 2.5.4 protocol 26. "Backup" is
> running OpenBSD 3.0. Rsync is using OpenSSH 3.1p1 as the transport. Files
> that are deleted from "www" are not deleted from "backup" on subsequent
> runs of rsync.
> 
> My rsync line looks like this:
> 
> rsync -avR --rsh=ssh --delete --exclude-from=/tmp/excludes.daily \
>     / backup:/home/backup/www/

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Dan Ramaley
Digital Media Library Specialist
(515) 271-1934
Cowles Library 140, Drake University