rsync - Oct 2010 - How to delete a whole destination tree (inclusive the destination its-self) with rsync (daemon)?

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:15:37 +0100
Vahsen Beheer <beheer at vahsen.nl> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am backing up  (using --link-dest, hard links) to a NAS which has
> an 'rsync' daemon running. I do not have ssh access to this
> Storage-device. Part of my script needs to delete whole remote
> directory trees. This seems difficult with rsync.
> 
> 
> A nice trick is to make an empty source directory:
> 
> rsync -a --delete /tmp/empty-dir/
> remote-host::Backups/daily.20101030-0155
> 
> 
> This works perfect. It deletes the contents of destination. However,
> need it to also delete the destination directory its-self.
> 
> This seems something very easy, but after searching for many hours in
> the manual, FAQ, Web and forum did not reveal a solution.
> 
> 
> Is it possible to have rsync also delete the
'destination-directory' ?
> (Or do i need to work from its parent-directory of the destination -
> here the module itsself ? Or do something with filters?)
> 
> The next also does not work (it deletes all! from the Backups module):
> 
> rsync -a --exclude='/***' --include='/daily.20101030-0155/'
> --delete /tmp/empty-dir/ remote-host::Backups
> 
> 
> Any tips? Did anyone ever tried this? :)
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Robert
> 
> 
> PS: I also looked into the --prune-empty-dirs option, without success
> though.
> 
> 
rsync -naivv -f '-!pr daily.20101030-0155' --del  /tmp/empty_dir/
remote-host::Backups/

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:15:37 +0100
Vahsen Beheer <beheer at vahsen.nl> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am backing up  (using --link-dest, hard links) to a NAS which has
> an 'rsync' daemon running. I do not have ssh access to this
> Storage-device. Part of my script needs to delete whole remote
> directory trees. This seems difficult with rsync.
> 
> 
> A nice trick is to make an empty source directory:
> 
> rsync -a --delete /tmp/empty-dir/
> remote-host::Backups/daily.20101030-0155
> 
> 
> This works perfect. It deletes the contents of destination. However,
> need it to also delete the destination directory its-self.
> 
> This seems something very easy, but after searching for many hours in
> the manual, FAQ, Web and forum did not reveal a solution.
> 
> 
> Is it possible to have rsync also delete the
'destination-directory' ?
> (Or do i need to work from its parent-directory of the destination -
> here the module itsself ? Or do something with filters?)
> 
> The next also does not work (it deletes all! from the Backups module):
> 
> rsync -a --exclude='/***' --include='/daily.20101030-0155/'
> --delete /tmp/empty-dir/ remote-host::Backups
> 
> 
> Any tips? Did anyone ever tried this? :)
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Robert
> 
> 
> PS: I also looked into the --prune-empty-dirs option, without success
> though.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Maybe better: rsync -ndivv -f '-!pr /daily.20101030-0155'
--del  /tmp/empty_dir/ remote-host::Backups/

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:15:37 +0100
Vahsen Beheer <beheer at vahsen.nl> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am backing up  (using --link-dest, hard links) to a NAS which has
> an 'rsync' daemon running. I do not have ssh access to this
> Storage-device. Part of my script needs to delete whole remote
> directory trees. This seems difficult with rsync.
> 
> 
> A nice trick is to make an empty source directory:
> 
> rsync -a --delete /tmp/empty-dir/
> remote-host::Backups/daily.20101030-0155
> 
> 
> This works perfect. It deletes the contents of destination. However,
> need it to also delete the destination directory its-self.
> 
> This seems something very easy, but after searching for many hours in
> the manual, FAQ, Web and forum did not reveal a solution.
> 
> 
> Is it possible to have rsync also delete the
'destination-directory' ?
> (Or do i need to work from its parent-directory of the destination -
> here the module itsself ? Or do something with filters?)
> 
> The next also does not work (it deletes all! from the Backups module):
> 
> rsync -a --exclude='/***' --include='/daily.20101030-0155/'
> --delete /tmp/empty-dir/ remote-host::Backups
> 
> 
> Any tips? Did anyone ever tried this? :)
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Robert
> 
> 
> PS: I also looked into the --prune-empty-dirs option, without success
> though.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Or: rsync -ndivv -f 'P!p /daily.20101030-0155' --del  /tmp/empty_dir/
remote-host::Backups/

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On 31-10-2010 18:41, edacval at gmail.com wrote:
> On 10/31/2010 07:26 PM, Vahsen Beheer wrote:
>> On 31-10-2010 18:07, edacval at gmail.com wrote:
>>> "-n" means "dry-run", no real action will be
performed :).
>>>
>>> Hope found one-line solution:
>>> rsync -ndivv -f 'R /daily.20101030-0155/**' -f '-!r
>>> /daily.20101030-0155' --del  /tmp/empty_dir/
remote-host::Backups/
>>>
>> :-) I know that it is a dry run... The thing is however that all your
latter
>> solutions work perfectly on the root of the module.
>> However i need to delete directories which are in subdirectories of
this module...
>> I guess the problem is the anchoring of the module in combination with
the
>> filter-rules.
>> Reading the manual about 'anchoring include/exclude patterns'
and checking out
>> the filter-rules did not help me.
>>
>> Can you get your last example to work with a subdirectory of a
directory in the
>> module its-self ?
>>
>> The thing i tried below (with the added "SUBDIR/") does not
work:
>> ( i try to remove the tree:
"remote-host::Backups/SUBDIR/daily.20101030-0155")
>>
>> rsync -divvv -f 'R /*SUBDIR/*daily.20101030-0155/**' -f
'-!r
>> /SUBDIR/daily.20101030-0155' --del  /tmp/empty_dir/
remote-host::Backups/*SUBDIR/*
>>
>> A final hint? ;)
>>
> rsync -divvv -f 'R /daily.20101030-0155/**' -f '-!r
> /daily.20101030-0155' --del  /tmp/empty_dir/
remote-host::Backups/SUBDIR/
The latter example of Edvinas works perfectly. It deletes the directory 
tree:

   "remote-host::Backups/SUBDIR/daily.20101030-0155"

It seems that filters are relative to the whole destination path, and 
not only themodule (as for example '--link-dest' is).

Thanks a lot for your help Edvinas (and also Matt),
this seemed like a trivial thing to do, but certainly wasn't for a 
rsync-filter-newbie ;-)
Cheers!