files deleted without --delete option

Charles Haven JCHaven at airpower-usa.com
Fri May 18 14:09:44 GMT 2007


Hello all,

I want to copy all files on the SRC side to the DST side without deleteing
any from the DST side. However, whenever I run rsync the files on the DST
side are deleted if they were deleted from the SRC side. What am I doing
wrong? 

I am running the following command:
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rsync -avz --progress --force --delete-excluded --exclude-from=exclude.txt
myroot at 192.168.1.2:/mnt/array1/ /mnt/harddisk3/
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This is what is in my exclude file:
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debian:/home/jchaven/scripts# cat exclude.txt
thumbs.db
Thumbs.db
Temp/
debian:/home/jchaven/scripts# 
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Here is the result with a new file to synch on the SRC side:
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debian:/home/jchaven/scripts# rsync -avz --progress --force
--delete-excluded --exclude-from=exclude.txt myroot at 192.168.1.2:/mnt/array1/
/mnt/harddisk3/
myroot at 192.168.1.2's password: 
receiving file list ... 
76280 files to consider
IT/Projects to Archive/
IT/Projects to Archive/New Text Document.txt
           0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00  (1, 42.0% of 76280)

sent 71 bytes  received 1555447 bytes  58698.79 bytes/sec
total size is 22762378976  speedup is 14633.31
debian:/home/jchaven/scripts# 
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Here is the result with the new file deleted on the SRC side. I do not want
it deleted on the DST side - but it is:
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debian:/home/jchaven/scripts# rsync -avz --progress --force
--delete-excluded --exclude-from=exclude.txt myroot at 192.168.1.2:/mnt/array1/
/mnt/harddisk3/
myroot at 192.168.1.2's password: 
receiving file list ... 
76279 files to consider
deleting IT/Projects to Archive/New Text Document.txt
IT/Projects to Archive/

sent 51 bytes  received 1555357 bytes  66187.57 bytes/sec
total size is 22762378976  speedup is 14634.35
debian:/home/jchaven/scripts# 
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rSync version used an Debian "etch" (debian 2.4.27-2-386):
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debian:/home/jchaven/scripts# rsync -help
rsync  version 2.6.4  protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2005 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, 
              inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
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Thanks,
Charles Haven

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