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Hello.

Please reply to me directly; I am not subscribed to this list.

I've been using rsnapshot 1.2 for a year or so: Thanks very much for this excellent utility.

I've noticed that my backup trees are full of files that have been deleted from the master (source) a long time ago. I browsed through the docs and looked for command options to rsync to fix this, and tried

--delete-after and --delete and --force

But these seem to have had no effect.

Watching the -v output from rsnapshot, here's an example rsync command line:

/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete-after --force --links --safe-links --delete
--numeric-ids --relative --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -c blowfish
root < at > 10.0.0.3:/etc/ /mnt/backup/automatic/daily.0/giacometti/

when I simulate the process with a simple directory full of text files and do the rsync manually (with nearly identical parameters) it works perfectly... the files deleted from the source disappear from the backups.

I'm running rsnapshot on Debian/Stable with kernel 2.6.13.

And idea what's going wrong?

Thanks again.

Matt,

Have a look at this bug report about rsync
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317418
and see if it helps.

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Matt Feifarek wrote:

Hello.
Please reply to me directly; I am not subscribed to this list.
I've been using rsnapshot 1.2 for a year or so: Thanks very much for
this excellent utility.
I've noticed that my backup trees are full of files that have been
deleted from the master (source) a long time ago. I browsed through
the docs and looked for command options to rsync to fix this, and
tried
--delete-after and --delete and --force
But these seem to have had no effect.
Watching the -v output from rsnapshot, here's an example rsync command
line:
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete-after --force --links --safe-links --delete
\
--numeric-ids --relative --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -c blowfish \
root < at > 10.0.0.3:/etc/ /mnt/backup/automatic/daily.0/giacometti/
when I simulate the process with a simple directory full of text files
and do the rsync manually (with nearly identical parameters) it works
perfectly... the files deleted from the source disappear from the
backups.
I'm running rsnapshot on Debian/Stable with kernel 2.6.13.
And idea what's going wrong?
Thanks again.

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