In case anyone's curious I think I've resolved this. Dropping the trailing slash on the source directory seems to do the trick. Seems like a bug, but maybe there's some good reason for it. -Steve On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:31:54PM -0600, Steve Cayford wrote: > I'm having a struggle getting rsnapshot/rsync to delete files on my backup > machine that have been deleted on my desktop machine. > > At first I thought I was using rsnapshot wrong, but I turned up the logging > and grabbed the actual rsync command and ran it, but it still won't delete > files that have been deleted from the source. > > The command is: > "/usr/bin/rsync -ax --ignore-errors --delete --numeric-ids --relative > --delete-excluded --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh root at client:/home/ /backupdir/client/ " > > The backup machine executing this call is running debian amd64 stable, with > rsync 2.6.4, the client/source is running debian x86 testing with rsync 2.6.6. > It's not reporting any errors, but I added the --ignore-errors just to make > sure that wasn't the issue. > > Any thoughts or suggestions? Am I doing something clueless? > > Thanks. > > -Steve > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list