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Does --relative fix it? You almost always want --relative with
multiple sources.
On 08/16/2014 09:10 PM, Robert DuToit wrote:> Hello All,
>
> I have lately heard from a couple of people that delete option was
> not deleting extraneous files on destination. This only happens
> when there are several source directories and at destination some
> show delete working and others not. I can not reproduce the issue
> so it is hard to pinpoint.
>
> one example:
>
> This is on OSX Mavericks running rsync 3.0.9 with the usual osx
> patches and options
>
> rsync -aHAXN --fileflags --force-change --protect-decmpfs
> --exclude-from=/tmp/BLexclusions.txt --stats ?delete ?progress -vvv
> /Applications /Library /Users /Volumes/Backup
>
> So with /Applications /Library /Users being source, only
> /Applications shows files being deleted. Removing /Applications and
> the two other directories work with delete fine. Even changing the
> order has same result. The exclude file shows only one directory in
> /Applications.
>
> I asked user to try different (new) external drive - same results.
>
>
> I?m stumped as there are no rsync errors. Rsync progress shows
> everything fine and mentions files deleted in /Applications and
> nowhere else.
>
> I am not very good with rsync source but perhaps there are areas I
> could look where --delete might be disabled for whatever reasons?
>
> There are usually ACL's on both /Applications and /Library in OSX
>
> 0: group:everyone deny delete
>
> but this is overridden by rsync as root any ways? usual regular
> permissions on all directories as well.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated
>
> Thanks, Rob
>
>
>
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