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From: Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync over ssh "--delete" not working
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:09:21
Message-Id: 200511252300.17006.mike@gaima.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] rsync over ssh "--delete" not working by Joseph
1 On Friday 25 November 2005 22:44, Joseph wrote:
2 > How to make "--delete" work with rsync over ssh?
3
4 By telling rsync to delete.
5
6 > When I do "rsync" I want it to delete files on destination if they are
7 > not present on source:
8 >
9 > example:
10 > rsync -av ssh --delete source/
11 > joseph@10.0.0.101:/home/joseph/destination
12 > I get:
13 > building file list ... link_stat "/home/joseph/ssh" failed: No such file
14 > or directory
15
16 Yep, that's exactly what you should see.
17 You've told rsync to copy ssh and source to
18 joseph@10.0.0.101:/home/joseph/destination
19 rsync has defaulted to ssh for ages now, but to force it you have to specify
20 the remote shell.
21
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