--files-from= and --delete corrent options

[James Robertson]

> Try this instead:
>
> rsync [OPTIONS] --include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE --exclude='*'
> /var/data/shares/vmbackups/ /mnt/usb_backup/SFSYDVS01/daily.0/VM/
>
> This way, rsync will scan the destination directory for deletions (since
> you have -a without --files-from, which implies -r) and will delete the
> old files because they are excluded with --delete-excluded.
>
> Matt
>
>   
Thanks Matt,

I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me as you describe.  I just 
created a test setup.  The commands I'm running are as follows:

root at sfnas01:~# rsync --version
rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
root at sfnas01:~# ls /tmp/source/
Thursday2008-09-11.bkf  Tuesday2008-09-09.bkf  Wednesday2008-09-10.bkf
root at sfnas01:~# ls -t1 /tmp/source | head -n 1 > /tmp/BACKUPFILE
root at sfnas01:~# cat /tmp/BACKUPFILE
Thursday2008-09-11.bkf
root at sfnas01:~# rsync -ah --delete --numeric-ids --stats 
--delete-excluded -include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE --exclude='*' 
/tmp/source/ /tmp/destination/
.d..t...... ./

Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 0 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 20
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 42
Total bytes received: 26

sent 42 bytes  received 26 bytes  136.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
root at sfnas01:~# ls /tmp/destination/
root at sfnas01:~#