rsync - Dec 2005 - Deleted remote directories not being removed locally

Hi,

I'm using the following command to grab a list of directories, not their 
contents, from a source server and create them locally(a backup server)

rsync -v --stats -d --include='+ */' --include='- *' --force 
--delete-during --backup \
 --backup-dir=/mnt/backups/_DELETED 192.168.0.2::'ucp/*' .

It recreates the list of directories locally with out a problem. 
However, if a directory on the source server is removed, the local 
"copy" is not moved to the backup-dir. The deleted directories are 
generally not empty so I added the --force option but that had not 
effect.  Is it because I'm only looking at the directories and not their 
contents that it's not moving the remove directories?

FYI, what I'm attempting to do is recreate the top level directory 
structure locally, then go through the directories, syncing each one. 
The only part that is not working is the removal/backing-up of the 
removed directories.

David

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:00:14AM -0500, David Filion
wrote:
> rsync -v --stats -d --include='+ */' --include='- *'
--force
> --delete-during --backup \
> --backup-dir=/mnt/backups/_DELETED 192.168.0.2::'ucp/*' .
Read the first two paragraphs from the --delete option in the rsync
manpage:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html

It explains why the '*' is not appropriate and also that -r is
(currently) required to be used (the CVS version will delete inside
directories sent via -d, but not older versions of rsync).  If you
don't want subdirectories inside the top-level dirs to be copied,
you can either exclude them (add --exclude='*/*' prior to your first
include and add -r to the options) or upgrade to the CVS version.

..wayne..