Re: [MLUG] rsync delete

[Michael Procter <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:04:21PM -0500, Sven Conrad wrote:
> Hi everybody
> 
> I have a wired problem with rsync. 
> ( I use a tunnel trough ssh, one side runs as daemon the other client. I sync 
> one folder from server to client and another one from client to server)
> 
> The Problem is, that the --delete option is working only in one direction, 
> from server to client. The folder on server side does not delete obsolete 
> files (but generates new files, no problem)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Dredged this up from groups.google.com -- could this be it?

>On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, g dm wrote:
>> rsync -a --delete * /data/exp_dir
>> So, what did I do wrong?

>You're sending a list of files, not a directory (since '*' is expanded
>by the shell into a list of files).  The --delete option only works on
>a directory-to-directory transfer, so try using this instead:

>rsync -a --delete ./ /data/exp_dir

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