Quote:
Originally Posted by mfoley
From host WEB I am mounting a Windows drive (host DBSERVER). I am also nfs-mounting a Linux directory from host NAS. I am copying files from the Windows mountpoint to the nfs (NAS) mountpoint using the command:
Code:
rsync -tvd --delete --exclude='System Volume Information' --exclude='$RECYCLE.BIN' \
/mnt/tmp/dbserverOffsite* /OHPRSstorage/Acronis/workstations/dbserver/
Why is --delete not working? |
As you're using a wildcard (*) in the source, you're NOT synchronizing
directories but a bunch of individual files - the wildcard is
expanded by the shell before even rsync starts.
As the man page clearly says:
Code:
--delete
This tells rsync to delete extraneous files from the receiving
side (ones that aren’t on the sending side), but only for the
directories that are being synchronized.
You must have asked rsync to send the whole directory (e.g.
"dir" or "dir/") without using a wildcard for the directory’s
contents (e.g. "dir/*") since the wildcard is expanded by the
shell and rsync thus gets a request to transfer individual
files, not the files’ parent directory.
Thus only when the source is a
directory, either with or without a trailing / will the --delete option (and its variations like --delete-during etc) work, because it then tries to sync the whole directory.
