On 11/19/10 00:08:06, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two problems with rsync > > > > 1st) if I give both commandline options -u and -c > > it looks as if a file which is more recent but different > > on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c > > Is that true? > > > > 2nd) There is a symlink A on <SourceDir> which refers to a > directory > > On the other hand, A is the name of a (real) subdirectory of > > <DestDir> > > > > Now doing > > rsync -auHz --delete --exclude=/A <SourceDir>/ <DestDir>/ > > does remove A on <DestDir> - why ? > > I don't know the answer to your 1st question, but I think that the > answer to > your 2nd question is that A on the <DestDir> is removed because of > the > -- > delete option. According to the man page: > > --delete delete extraneous files from dest dirs. >
Thanks Mick, but --exclude protects against deletion. My problem was that I did use rsync -auHz --delete --exclude=/A/ <SourceDir>/ <DestDir>/ .................................^ because A is a directory on <DestDir>. But it turned out that this does delete A on <DestDir> since A is a symlink on <SourceDir> and the include/exclude pattern is applied to the <SourceDir> only. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
