Re: --delete doesn't appear to be working

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:11:04PM -0500, Ben Lake wrote:
> So I've recently uncommented rsync_long_args and applied --delete. 

This shouldn't make any difference - the commented out rsync_long_args
is the default.

> However, the soft link that no longer exists on the client machine still 
> throws an error when rsnapshot tries to chgrp it (as it follows the link 
> to the non-existent path on the server).

I've tried to reproduce the problem you are seeing and I have not been
able to.

I am using Linux (Fedora Core 3), and running rsnapshot 1.2.9 from a
root shell (not from cron), like this:
        # rsnapshot -c /tmp/rsnapshot.conf daily

The test config file looks like this:

$ awk '/^[^#]/' /tmp/rsnapshot.conf
config_version  1.2
snapshot_root   /tmp/snapshots/
cmd_cp          /bin/cp
cmd_rm          /bin/rm
cmd_rsync       /usr/bin/rsync
cmd_ssh         /usr/bin/ssh
cmd_logger      /usr/bin/logger
cmd_du          /usr/bin/du
interval        daily   7
interval        weekly  4
interval        monthly 3
verbose 2
loglevel        3
logfile /tmp/rsnapshot.log
backup  /tmp/foo                ./
$
 
/tmp/snapshots and /tmp/foo are both on / which is an ext3 file system.

> Looking at daily.0 still shows the link!
> 
> What's the deal? I know rsync works, but why isn't this link being 
> deleted? Am I missing something in how the linking works to simulate 
> snapshots?

Can you try to simulate the problem in a test area by creating some
files and using a separate config file (perhaps like the one above).
If you find the same problem, then send us a list of commands to run
to re-create your test environment and run the same test.

> Ben Lake
> 
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