Question

I have setup rsync to mirror a directory from a source server(a) to a mirror(b). I have gotten it to send new files that are on the source but when I delete a file from the source it doesn’t end up deleting it.

Below is what I use to call rsync:

rsync -vhzrplt --stats --delete --rsh='/usr/bin/ssh -q'  --exclude="core/" --exclude="cache/" /home/(a)/public_html (b):/home/(b)/public_html/

When I run rsync i get the output below:

stdin: is not a tty
sending incremental file list
public_html/
deleting public_html/test.html

Number of files: 389
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 3.16M bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 9.25K
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 9.33K
Total bytes received: 47

sent 9.33K bytes  received 47 bytes  1.25K bytes/sec
total size is 3.16M  speedup is 336.81

As you can see it shows that it’s deleting test.html but it never ends up doing it. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I was able to fix this by using this instead:

rsync -vhzrplt --stats --delete --rsh='/usr/bin/ssh -q'  --exclude="core/" --exclude="cache/" /home/(a)/public_html/ (b):/home/(b)/public_html/

Add trailing slashes to paths that are folders.