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...hines and my NAS drive. But within the last 2 days I have found out that rsync is not removing old files from destination - directories renamed or removed from source. In this example I want to sync files on my Debian Linux server to a NAS drive. NAS drive is mounted using smbmount. Using "-avhzn" dry-run it indicate f3 and file3 to be removed. ==> Method SMBFS mount ==> smbmount <diskstation> /mnt/NAS.20071201.204045 -o username=root,password=xxx ==> rsync -avhzn --delete --progress /mnt/6/tst /mnt/NAS.20071201.204045/Archive building file list ... 4 files to consider...

...combination. auth users = paolo secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets # Allow rsync just from my own IP. max connections = 1 hosts allow = www.xxx.yyy.zzz hosts deny = * [all] comment = Module for whole disk backup. path = / And this is the command line lauched from root user on the client: rsync -avHz --password-file=rsync_password paolo@www.xxx.yyy.zzz::all /home/paolo/rsynced If I have understand correctly it must be launched by root in order to preserve the owner of original files. Are the switch correct to copy each kind of files, devices, links etc.? Another couple of things; on the serv...

This seems to be a common topic. I really _have_ looked at the archives before posting, though, and can't find anything that covers this. I'm backing up an entire server over the net, except for a few excluded files: echo `date` >/var/log/rsync.tolstoy /usr/bin/rsync -avHz --stats --delete --numeric-ids --exclude=/sys --exclude=/home/backup --exclude=/monthly / backup@tolstoy:/backup/chekov >>/var/log/rsync.tolstoy 2>&1 The backup works great. However, I've got a bunch of obsolete directories in /home which I erased. On the target side, they&...