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I wrote a script that uses rsync a bit and wanted to use it. While testing was fine, the real life was more complicated :) Basically, my rsync command looks like that: rsync -v -azu -b --backup-dir /var/backup/files/ /var/profiles/files/ username@host:/ When I execute it where both machines have rsync 2.6.3, everything runs fine. When I execute it on a machine with rsync 2.6.6, and the remote

...p-dir-dels (just as --suffix defaults to empty when + * a --backup-dir is given). The second case does not apply to the + * server for consistency with server_options, which sends --suffix-dels + * to the server iff it differs from --suffix. */ if (!backup_suffix_dels) backup_suffix_dels = backup_dir_dels && !am_server ? "" : backup_suffix; backup_suffix_dels_len = strlen(backup_suffix_dels); -- 1.5.4.3.193.g6dd0e

Hi All, I think I am missing something with the backup-dir-dels.diff patch. How does that differ from the original --backup -backup-dir=DIR option? Using the original one works fine (on patched or non-patched rsync), putting deleted source files into the DIR on destination, but when I run --backup -backup-dir-dels=DIR, nothing happens to the deleted files. Rob D