Trouble with "--delete" with "--files-from"

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:09:06PM +0100, Richard Hopkins wrote:
> This is working well for me, except for the "--delete" bit. (When mailboxes 
> are deleted on the source system I obviously want this reflected on the 
> target.)

Delete only affects directories that rsync has sent the contents of,
otherwise it wouldn't know what to delete.  It sounds like you should be
using --exclude instead of --files-from, like the following (I made a
guess that the /temp2 arg from your original command was a typo since it
isn't leagal syntax to have two sources with --files-from).

Put this in a file named "ex":
+ cyrus.seen
+ cyrus.cache
+ cyrus.index
+ */
- *

... and run this:

rsync -quWae /usr/local/bin/ssh --delete --exclude-from=ex
     /mnt2/sms/mail/ user at remote:/var/cyrus/backups/spo-ms

I think the trailing slash is what you want on the source -- only
remove it if you want the "mail" subdir to be included in "spo-ms".

..wayne..