rsync - Aug 2014 - delete not working with multiple source directories

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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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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