rsync filters

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/9/24 Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>:
> 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.

Oops, you beat me to it… well, at least we are two who says the same thing…

J.R.

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