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On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have two problems with rsync |
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> 1st) if I give both commandline options -u and -c |
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> it looks as if a file which is more recent but different |
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> on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c |
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> Is that true? |
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> 2nd) There is a symlink A on <SourceDir> which refers to a directory |
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> On the other hand, A is the name of a (real) subdirectory of |
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> <DestDir> |
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> Now doing |
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> rsync -auHz --delete --exclude=/A <SourceDir>/ <DestDir>/ |
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> does remove A on <DestDir> - why ? |
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I don't know the answer to your 1st question, but I think that the answer to |
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your 2nd question is that A on the <DestDir> is removed because of the -- |
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delete option. According to the man page: |
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--delete delete extraneous files from dest dirs. |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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