/home/<user>/.gvfs causing problems for rsync

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 00:54 -0500, Luke Militello wrote:
> Try this...
> 
> rsync -av --delete-after --exclude=".gvfs/" /home/user/ /path/to/dst/

--delete-after doesn't delete excluded files and directories though, it
just instructs rsync to do deletions last instead of first. The error
seems to be happening during the list-building phase in rsync, not the
writing phase, so I'm not sure what he wins with this.

However, I'm still waiting to find out whether using --delete (or
--delete-after, for that matter) instead of --delete-excludes actually
makes the error go away. I use rsync and --delete with --exclude
"- .gvfs/" and everything works fine. Of course, with --delete he won't
be deleting excluded files on the receiving end, but he can do that in a
separate step as a workaround.

Another option - though it's a bit of a sledgehammer - might be to
specify --ignore-errors, which should cause the deletes to proceed even
though .gvfs caused a problem. Definitely a workaround, and probably not
acceptable in the longer term.

Regards, K.

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