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...once in a while somebody replaces a symbolic link with the contents of the file. In this case, I find that dry-run will report errors while rsync without -n flag works fine. A test case can be generated like this: mkdir old cd old mkdir data ln -s data link cd .. mkdir new mkdir new/link rsync -n -arlpogt --delete new/ old/ The rsync output will be: building file list ... done deleting data/ deleting link link/ Now when we delete data before, rsync fails: rmdir old/data rsync -n -arlpogt --delete new/ old/ building file list ... done deleting link rsync: opendir "/data1/ppe/tmp/old/link"...