rsync filters

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 12:33 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:


> For instance, I get this kind of output ...
> 
> bin/
> deleting bin/znew
> deleting bin/zmore
> deleting bin/zless
> deleting bin/zgrep
> deleting bin/zforce
> deleting bin/zfgrep
> deleting bin/zegrep
> deleting bin/zdiff
> deleting bin/zcmp
> deleting bin/zcat
> deleting bin/which
> deleting bin/vdir
> deleting bin/uncompress
> deleting bin/uname
> deleting bin/umount
> [...]
> 
> All of which exist on both machines and appear to be identical, including 
> timestamps.
> 

> The command line I am using is: 
> rsync  -vazSHF --no-blocking-io --partial --delete-during --delete-excluded --timeout 600 --dry-run  / $sync_dst:/
> 

Your problem is the --delete-excluded flag.  It will delete files on the
target which are excluded on the source.  That is why you are getting
the delete messages.  You probably want the --delete flag which will
delete files on the target which are not on the source and not in the
excluded category.
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