Hi all, I've finally hit rsync limit. As someone already addressed the problem in this list the problem regards the impossibility for rsync to rename directories. The situation is as follow: every night I backup my samba dir with this command:
rsync -ab --suffix=-`date +%F-%H%M` --filter="protect *-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" --delete --numeric-ids --stats -h /home/samba/ /mnt/usbdisk as you can see, I simply rename the files deleted with the date they've been found deleted, hence providing a protect filter for the files with a date at the end (as you might imagine the machine serves windows clients). Obviously (!) when a directory is deleted on the source dir, all the files in the destination will be renamed, but the dir will not, and rsync tries to delete it ending with a "cannot delete a non-empty dir". I'm asking here because I need even a dirty solution to this problem. I've been addressed to rsnapshot, but seems hard to replicate the same backup type I've setup, so I gave it up. Any suggestion, solutions and such will be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance, -- Matteo 'Peach' Pescarin -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
