--delete ignored?

[jw schultz]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:24:35PM -0000, va_public <yahoogroups at vikas.mailshell.com> wrote:
> rsync 2.5.6
> 
> If I turn on the --backup (and --backup-dir and --suffix) options and 
> rsync a tree like
> 
> rsync --backup ... -av --delete dir1/ user at machine:dir1
> 
> I dont see the 'deleting ...' message in the output, but if I delete 
> a file in the source tree, it DOES get deleted from the target tree.
> 
> If I remove the '--backup' option, I do get the 'deleting ...' 
> message.
> 
> Why is this?
> 
> If the file is getting deleted, shouldnt the --verbose option print a 
> message to this effect?

Because it isn't deleting the files.

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