rsync - Aug 2009 - the protect flag - P doesn't work with --relative option ?

Hi,

Basically, I want to preserve some of directories on destination side
conditionally and hence, I choose to use --filter option mentioned in rsync
man pages. I noticed that --filter option works as expected when I don't
have --relative option used but in below case it doesn't work.

rsync  -avz  --relative --delete  --filter='H /mydir2' --exclude='-
/preserve'  mydir1/. destHost:/tmp/mydir

I want to sync "/tmp/mydir/mydir1", delete "mydir2" and
protect and hide
"preserve" directory on destination host.

I noticed that rsync doesn't deletes the "mydir2" on destination
host but if
I remove --relative then it does. Could anyone tell me is there any
dependencies between Hide and Protect flag with --relative option? How to
make rsync to delete directories with H flag set and --relative option
specified?

Thanks.
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Sorry, I think I wasn't much clear. Here is the exact issue:

destHost#> ls  /tmp/mydir/2008
file      mydir3    new       preserve

The below command deletes the "/tmp/mydir/2008/mydir3" directory.

sourceHost#/tmp/mydir> rsync -avz --relative --delete --include='+
/2008/.'
--filter='H /2008/mydir3' --exclude='- /2008/preserve' 2008/.
destHost:/tmp/mydir
sending incremental file list
2008/
deleting 2008/mydir3/

sent 138 bytes  received 17 bytes  34.44 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

The below command doesn't delete the "/tmp/mydir/2008/mydir3"
directory but
deletes "/tmp/mydir/2008/new/mydir3". Is there any way to tell rsync
to
delete "/tmp/mydir/2008/mydir3" directory from below command?

sourceHost#/tmp/mydir/2008> rsync -avz --relative --delete --include='+
/new/.' --filter='H /mydir3' new/. destHost:/tmp/mydir/2008
sending incremental file list

sent 73 bytes  received 13 bytes  9.05 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

sourceHost#/tmp/mydir/2008> rsync -avz --relative --delete --include='+
/new/.' --filter='H /mydir3' new/. destHost:/tmp/mydir/2008
sending incremental file list
new/
deleting new/mydir3/

sent 76 bytes  received 16 bytes  16.73 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

Thanks, Paresh

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:55 AM, paresh masani <masaniparesh at
gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Basically, I want to preserve some of directories on destination side
> conditionally and hence, I choose to use --filter option mentioned in rsync
> man pages. I noticed that --filter option works as expected when I
don't
> have --relative option used but in below case it doesn't work.
>
> rsync  -avz  --relative --delete  --filter='H /mydir2'
--exclude='-
> /preserve'  mydir1/. destHost:/tmp/mydir
>
> I want to sync "/tmp/mydir/mydir1", delete "mydir2" and
protect and hide
> "preserve" directory on destination host.
>
> I noticed that rsync doesn't deletes the "mydir2" on
destination host but
> if I remove --relative then it does. Could anyone tell me is there any
> dependencies between Hide and Protect flag with --relative option? How to
> make rsync to delete directories with H flag set and --relative option
> specified?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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