The only time I have seen something like that was when I was using rsync to backup a snapshot and something went wrong in the snapshot creation resulting in me rsyncing an empty dir instead of a mounted filesystem. Does the --stats output imply that rsync saw an empty dir?
On 6/9/20 2:46 AM, freebsd--- via rsync wrote: > Hello, > > I run into some really strange case I haven't seen so far over the years. > I syncing a lot of different macines, raspberry pis to a backup server > nightly. > Lately one of them misbehaves. > > Server rsync: rsync version 3.1.2 protocol version 31 > Client rsync: rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31 > > Command used: > rsync --numeric-ids --delete --delete-excluded --delete-after -f "merge > ${BUFFER}" --stats -e "${SSH_CMD}" root@${BACKUP_HOST}:/ $BACKUPROOT/ > > Sometimes when I run this script from the server it just decides to > delete ALL files what it already have and sync is done. > > I run it again couple of minutes after it syncs everything. > > What can cause such a behavior? I can of course remove the delete > directives but then the local copy will become messy over time and this > perfectly works with all other machines. > > It is not even that it cannot connect with rsync timeout and then it > decides to delete the data. It can connect then decides to delete all > data and done. > > Rsync is run by root in any case so it's not a privilege problem. > > Any ideas? > -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: https://sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,
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