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I am using rsnapshot <http://www.rsnapshot.org/> to make snapshots of my filesystem. rsnapshot uses rsync to do all the heavy lifting. I was recently browsing my snapshots and discovered that none of the excluded files or files deleted in the source are getting deleted from the snapshot. rsnapshot calls rsync like this: /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded

I know that there are a million messages from newbies who cannot get --delete to work. This message is special. :) --delete works fine for me EXCEPT when the following two conditions are present: 1) I am using the --relative option, and 2) the deleted file is in a subdirectory of the SRC directory. Here is a demonstration of how to recreate this bug: lenny@mythtv:/tmp$ rsync --version rsync

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3465 Summary: --files-from does not --delete Product: rsync Version: 2.6.6 Platform: Other OS/Version: AIX Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: michael.w.grenier@lmco.com