rsync version 2.6.3pre1 protocol version 28

volker.weinberger at pharma.novartis.com volker.weinberger at pharma.novartis.com
Mon Sep 20 09:11:19 GMT 2004 

Hi,

this is possibly a bug report (I'm not sure if this is a feature). It's 
related to the --keep-dirlinks option, when combined with --delete .

I have the following directory structure on server A:

ls -lR software 

software:
total 238
drwxr-xr-x   2 biolord  bioinf      1024 Sep 20 10:49 EMBOSS/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 biolord  bioinf         6 Feb  5  2003 MSE -> EMBOSS/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 biolord  bioinf         6 Feb  5  2003 PHYLIP -> EMBOSS/
...
lrwxrwxrwx   1 biolord  bioinf         6 Feb  5  2003 TOPO -> EMBOSS/
...

software/EMBOSS:
total 87942
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    551090 Jul 15 18:54 
DOMAINATRIX-1.0.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf   12100223 Jan 21  2003 EMBOSS-2.6.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf   14024961 Nov 30  2003 EMBOSS-2.8.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf   14479274 Jul 15 18:54 EMBOSS-2.9.0.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx   1 biolord  bioinf        19 Jul 18 07:56 EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz 
-> EMBOSS-2.9.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    340031 Jul 15 18:54 EMNU-1.05.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    375473 Jul 15 18:54 ESIM4-1.0.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    415122 Jul 15 18:54 MEME-2.3.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    405440 Jul 15 18:54 MSE-1.0.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    795320 Jun  1  2003 PHYLIP-3.573c.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    843060 Jul 15 18:54 PHYLIP-3.57c.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    309589 Nov 30  2003 TOPO-0.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 biolord  bioinf    342704 Jul 15 18:54 TOPO-1.0.0.tar.gz
-rw-rw-rw-   1 biolord  bioinf     29610 Sep 19 05:26 mirror.log

Using rsync -r --delete on server B for this dir works fine, also rsync -r 
--keep-dirlinks works OK (but no deletes, of couse).

With    rsync --keep-dirlinks -r --delete HOST:$ftp/software .    I get:

rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/mirror.log" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/TOPO-1.0.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/TOPO-0.1.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/PHYLIP-3.57c.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/PHYLIP-3.573c.tar.gz" failed: No such file 
or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/MSE-1.0.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/MSE-0.0.4.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/MEME-2.3.1.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/ESIM4-1.0.0.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMNU-1.05.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMNU-1.0.5.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz" failed: No such file 
or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMBOSS-2.9.0.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMBOSS-2.8.0.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMBOSS-2.7.1.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMBOSS-2.7.0.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMBOSS-2.6.0.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/EMBOSS-2.5.1.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/PHYLIP/DOMAINATRIX-1.0.0.tar.gz" failed: No such 
file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/mirror.log" failed: 
No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/TOPO-1.0.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/TOPO-0.1.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/PHYLIP-3.57c.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/PHYLIP-3.573c.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/MSE-1.0.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/MSE-0.0.4.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/MEME-2.3.1.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/ESIM4-1.0.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMNU-1.05.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMNU-1.0.5.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMBOSS-latest.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMBOSS-2.9.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMBOSS-2.8.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMBOSS-2.7.1.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMBOSS-2.7.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMBOSS-2.6.0.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/MSE/EMBOSS-2.5.1.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/MSE/DOMAINATRIX-1.0.0.tar.gz" failed: No such file 
or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/EMBOSS/MSE-0.0.4.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink "/gaia/indata/software/EMBOSS/EMNU-1.0.5.tar.gz" 
failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-2.7.1.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-2.7.0.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: delete_one: unlink 
"/gaia/indata/software/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-2.5.1.tar.gz" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
software/EMBOSS/DOMAINATRIX-1.0.0.tar.gz 551090 [551194]
software/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-2.6.0.tar.gz 12100223 [12101739]
software/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-2.8.0.tar.gz 14024961 [14026713]
software/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-2.9.0.tar.gz 14479274 [14481078]
software/EMBOSS/EMNU-1.05.tar.gz 340031 [340111]
software/EMBOSS/ESIM4-1.0.0.tar.gz 375473 [375557]
software/EMBOSS/MEME-2.3.1.tar.gz 415122 [415210]
software/EMBOSS/MSE-1.0.0.tar.gz 405440 [405528]
software/EMBOSS/PHYLIP-3.573c.tar.gz 795320 [795456]
software/EMBOSS/PHYLIP-3.57c.tar.gz 843060 [843200]
software/EMBOSS/TOPO-0.1.tar.gz 309589 [309665]
software/EMBOSS/TOPO-1.0.0.tar.gz 342704 [342784]
software/EMBOSS/mirror.log 29610 [29650]
...
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1126)

These happens although the directories were perfectly in sync when the 
command was issued.

Best regards,
Volker Weinberger

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