rsync - Jan 2006 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3465] New: --files-from does not --delete

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3465

           Summary: --files-from does not --delete
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.6
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: AIX
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: michael.w.grenier@lmco.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


If a file is on the destination box but not specified in the file given to
--files-from option, shouldn't the file be deleted?

Actual command:
rsync -vrptgz --delete -l -P -e rsh --stats --bwlimit=120  --timeout=1600
--files-from=files.txt /src somebox:/src

I want the files and directories under somebox:/src that are not listed in
files.txt to be deleted. 
This is on AIX 5. (Perhaps this is a feature request?)


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wayned@samba.org changed:

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           Severity|normal                      |enhancement
             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED




------- Comment #1 from wayned@samba.org  2006-01-30 15:22 MST -------
Nope, that's not how these options work.

It might be interesting to add an option that would tell rsync to transform the
piecemeal set of files and implied directories into a hierarchy of normal
directories, but that can't be the default or it would break the more
traditional uses of --files-from.


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------- Comment #2 from michael.w.grenier@lmco.com  2006-01-31 09:13 MST -------
Another work around might be to allow a --max-size of zero combined with a
--delete. --maxsize of zero is not supported in rsync. While it wouldn't
completely solve the original problem, it will at least delete files on the
receiver that are not in the senders directory without transferring anything.
Thus one would do the original transfer first:
--
rsync -vrptgz --delete -l -P -e rsh --stats --bwlimit=120  --timeout=1600
--files-from=files.txt /src somebox:/src
---

followed by something like:
--
rsync -rv --delete --max-size=0 -e rsh /src somebox:/src
--
to get rid of extra files. Of course, files could still exist on the receiving
side that in the senders directory tree that were not part of the --files-from
list. But its a start. I supposed I could try to exclude everything (but then
I'd need to learn about patterns :-). 


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------- Comment #3 from wayned@samba.org  2006-01-31 11:13 MST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Another work around might be to allow a --max-size of zero combined with a
> --delete.
The recommended way to ask rsync to only delete files is to use the combination
of --existing and --ignore-existing together so that rsync is skipping all file
transfers and directory/symlink/device creations.

There's also the script I just mentioned on the mailing list that turns a
list
of files into a set of includes & excludes that can be used in place of the
--files-from option.  The version from CVS is available here:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync/support/files-to-excludes


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------- Comment #4 from hashproduct+rsync@gmail.com  2006-08-01 20:34 MST
-------
It would be nice to have an option --delete-unlisted that causes the receiving
rsync to delete extraneous files even from destination directories whose
"contents" were not part of the transfer.  The option would be as
simple to
implement as marking all directories with FLAG_DEL_HERE.  Then Michael could
use --delete-unlisted to "make --files-from delete".


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matt at mattmccutchen.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|--files-from does not --    |Option to delete unlisted
                   |delete                      |files with --files-from
            Version|2.6.9                       |3.1.0




------- Comment #5 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2010-02-08 12:47 CST -------
Clarifying summary and bumping version (this feature still hasn't been added
in
3.1.0dev).


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                 CC|                            |kannan.kumarasamy at gmail.com




------- Comment #6 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2010-04-12 07:06 CST -------
*** Bug 7350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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------- Comment #7 from news at siddall.name  2011-02-01 20:35 CST -------
Any progress on this?  An option to delete everything in DEST that isn't
included in the transfer via something like a --delete-non-included option
would make my life _so_ much easier.  Since the workarounds are all varying
degrees of ugly this is more than just a nice-to-have.

I am trying to do:

rsync -a --delete /a/b/ /c/d/e/ /f

In /f I only want the contents of directories b and e and nothing else -- even
if something else is already there.

Also, the OS and hardware could probably be set to all since this is something
that applies to all platforms.


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