rsync - Apr 2006 - rsync not removing files that are out of date

I'm running on Red Hat Enterprise 3 machine with ~700Gb of Storage backing
up to
a similar machine using rsync backups running 6 times a day on various
directories in /home/.  The inital rsync copied roughly 150gb. Everything
appears to be backing up correctly so no loss of data which is good :)

The problem is that he backup server is not removing data that has been removed
from the primary server.  Some users work with really large images (75-500mb)
and often put them in temp directories until the product is finished and then
remove the old one.  The rsync client is not seeing this so on the server I
have an empty $home/somepath/temp/ directory and on the backup machine I have a
$home/somepath/temp directory that is 20gig. I would rather not exclude the
directories if I can help it.

Now I have about 700Gig of storage but that will be filled in a week if I
don't
find a way to automagiclly remove these temp files on the backup server.

Here is my command line:

#rsync -ahv --ignore-times --size-only linux1::home/rdrive /home/

I had to use --ignore-times because some files get changed and windows uses
modified time stamps and rsync appears to use the created time stamp. So the
theory is that when a file size changes it syncs it.  appears to be working so
far.

I have tried various -u --update --inplace, etc but i'm nervous about the
--delete commands because they seem to delete from the sender (the primary
server) which would not be good

any suggestions?  Please don't be ascared to tell me i'm an idiot and
i'm doing
something backwards.

Thanks,

Joe

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:55 -0400, joecool@webmasterz.org
wrote:
> I have tried various -u --update --inplace, etc but i'm nervous about
the
> --delete commands because they seem to delete from the sender (the primary
> server) which would not be good
No, all the --delete* options delete files from the receiver if their
counterparts on the sender have disappeared.  Maybe you're confusing
them with --remove-sent-files, which does delete transferred regular
files and symlinks from the sender.  In fact, I think
--remove-sent-files is the only option that causes rsync to modify the
sender in any way.
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Ooops I wouldn't do that.

Try

#rsync -ahv --modify-window=3601  linux1::home/rdrive /home/

ie only look at files more than an hour only or if the file size has changed.


I copy from a Windows server to a Linux backup so I use:


set CYGWIN=nontsec
set bw=1500
rsync -azP  --exclude-from=D:\excluded.txt --delete-excluded --delete
--modify-window=3601 --bwlimit=%bw% abcd@windowsserver::share/
/cygdrive/h/windowsserver/share


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