Hi, wondering if someone can help. I have googled for this and scoured the man page, but have got no further. I am running rsync 2.6.6 on windows and am finding it doesn't delete files from the target. For example my batch file has: rsync -av --delete /cygdrive/G/SAN_ARRAY/XPP_Data/alljobz/ /cygdrive/z/alljobz/ This copies everything over nicely, but doesn't delete files or folders from the target that have been deleted on the source. But, if I drill down the directory structure further: rsync -av --delete /cygdrive/G/SAN_ARRAY/XPP_Data/alljobz/test/alljobz/CLS_PaulTest/GRP_Jor dansFamily/ /cygdrive/z/alljobz/test/alljobz/CLS_PaulTest/GRP_JordansFamily/ Then rsync will delete sub folders from the GRP_JordansFamily/ directory as I would expect. Where am I going wrong and which blindingly obvious instruction have I missed. Thank you, Hedley Phillips
I managed to solve this in the end.
It was file permissions. I had originally copied all the data across by
restoring from Backup tape and then started using Rsync to keep the two
identical.
After deleting the directories in question and rsyncing them from
scratch, the problem has been solved.
Thanks,
Hedley Phillips
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