--delete option does not always work

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Sep 9 19:22:57 GMT 2006


On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 09:00:10PM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> root at darkside:~# rsync -HSaxvn --delete --relative / /mnt/rsnapshot/daily.0/darkside/root | grep -c ^deleting
> 0

This is a different bug that was recently fixed:  using --relative with
a root (/) filesystem and --delete was also failing to delete.  The
latest CVS source and recent nightly tar files have this fixed.  Here's
the bug (which has an attached patch):

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3929

..wayne..


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