Thank you both for your input. Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427
Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539 On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:49 PM, David Klann <dxkl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tom, > > Wayne states good information. I'll weigh in on this too. > > The reason your first instance of rsync (below) doesn't delete the files > on the destination is that the "*.wav" part is telling the local > instance of rsync to grab all the matching filenames on the local > server. All those individual wav files will be copied to the > destination, and since they were, by definition, on the source they'll > get copied to (and will not be deleted from) the destination. > > Here's the relevant section from the rsync manual page: "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." > > Since your instance of the command with "*.wav" is ONLY copying files, > it can't perform any deletion. > > Specifying just the directory (i.e., "master::rivendell/") you're > telling rsync to traverse the directory itself and determine which files > are on the receiving side that do not exist on the sending side. This is > (in my opinion) the best way to handle the synchronization. > > So, you're right on track! > > Hope this helps! > > ~David Klann > Phantom Machine Works > > > On 10/08/2015 09:55 AM, Tom Van Gorkom wrote: > > If anyone is out there and knows better on this than me... > > > > I have been puzzled by why I could not get rsync to delete when using > the --delete option. I learned that if you use /*.wav that the > destination will not delete its extra files (as used in the Rivendell > rd_audio_sync script). If I remove that from the string, it deletes like > expected. > > > > Examples: > > rsync -av --delete master::rivendell/*.wav /var/snd.standby > > > > The above copies all the files from master to standby fine but will > not remove any files in standby that do not exist on the master, whereas > the following does because it requests the whole directory, not > individual files: > > > > rsync -av --delete master::rivendell/ /var/snd.standby > > > > Is there any danger or undesirable consequences to replicating like this? > > > > Tom Van Gorkom > > Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM > > Office: 956-380-8150 > > Cell: 865-803-7427 > > > > Rio Grande Bible Institute > > 4300 S US Hwy 281 > > Edinburg, TX 78539 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlYW5O0ACgkQZtxZ++32cNg3KgEA1fWswlrD49Nn0XO6IV+bLFR+ > WCCO4tEGsMxvixIVgVUBAKgh+hROAGzsey/TyC4F/TUWbCxLU1PJyjDXJZphIgH7 > =rZY9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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