Comments on: How To Vanquish Rsync

By: peto

peto — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:08:15 +0000

hi, I just want to say thank you for sharing your knowledge! very helpful!

By: Sam IT

Sam IT — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:01:15 +0000

Yup, first result on Google.

In my case is was due to an exclusion.

Very helpful, thank you!

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:51:24 +0000

I had the same problem. Your explanation is clear. I really appreciate it. THANKS!

By: Gold

Gold — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:10:21 +0000

acmelab68: You’ll be pleased to hear that this is now the first hit on Google. At least of the search terms I used, which are appropriate for this issue.

+1′d it also.

Cheers,
Gold

By: rduke15

rduke15 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:04:15 +0000

Thanks a lot for this clear explanation. However, I still don’t know how to solve the problem. I modified a filter, and now exclude more stuff than before, so I run into the problem described here.

rsync -a –delete –backup –backup-dir=”_before-`date +%F`” –exclude=”_before-*” –filter=”. filter.txt” /SOURCE/ /DEST/

In other words, I want to save the deleted files under /DEST/_before-xxx. Which doesn’t exist in the SOURCE of course.

If I add –delete-excluded, I suppose it will delete my backup-dir where I keep deleted/changed files.

So I don’t know how to elegantly solve this problem (without manually deleting all the newly excluded files from the destination).

By: dreniarb

dreniarb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:14:54 +0000

awesome, very nice fine. this was driving me crazy!

By: Wil Alvarez

Wil Alvarez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:33:24 +0000

Excellent explanation, now i understand why rsync wasn’t deleting all those files!

I hope too that this good article be higher rated by Google, so other people can realize about the issue.

Cheers