Good day, all,
I'm using rsync 2.5.4 and a statically linked version of 2.5.5 to
back up my main system to a backup drive (See rsync-backup at
http://www.stearns.org/rsync-backup/ ).
First, I made a full backup of the system.
Then, on the main system, I merged the articles in techdocs
to another directory called articles, removed the techdocs directory and
made it a symlink to the articles directory.
Then I performed another backup. I get:
delete_file: rmdir(home/wstearns/med/techdocs) : Directory not empty
rsync: symlink "home/wstearns/med/techdocs" ->
"articles": File exists
The backup leaves techdocs as a symlink, incorrectly.
For reference, the 2.5.4 client is executing:
rsync -aR -e ssh --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after filespecs...
and the 2.5.5 server is executing:
/usr/sbin/chroot "/backups/$CLIENTNAME/current/" /rsync-static
--server -logDtprR --delete --delete-after --numeric-ids . /
My apologies if this is a faq or handled in 2.5.5 correctly.
Cheers,
- Bill
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