Rsync does not delete

Christian Völker chrischan at knebb.de
Sun Oct 21 09:11:22 GMT 2007


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Yohoo!

> No, my mail meant that I though you might confused about files being
> left over that weren't getting removed because they weren't part of the
> transfer.
No. The files have been transfered with the same command. After the
first transfer the files got deleted on the sender. The next invocation
of rsync now don't delete these files for whatever reason.


>  I do note that you are using --relative to no purpose.  
This is included from rsnapshot. I can't see a reason why this should
cause any confusion for deleting files when the first transfers worked
succesfully. But I can give it a try.


> could try turning that off.  You should also check to see if rsync is
> complaining about an I/O error, which disables deletions.
I now this feature for safety reasons. No, there are no I/O errors.

Greets.


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