rsync help for deleting files after sync

Saahib

Hi,
I have been using rsync for a while to transfer backup to remote server , however today I noticed that DESTINATION is also keeping files those are deleted on SOURCE.

Say SOURCE had files

1.sys
2.sys
3.sys
4.sys

Then it was rsynced with DESTINATION , now both have similar files..

However issue is coming when :
I deleted 2.sys and added 5.sys and 6.sys, then on SOURCE It will be

1.sys
3.sys
4.sys
5.sys
6.sys

When rsynced with DESTINATION, it now contains all :

1.sys
2.sys
3.sys
4.sys
5.sys
6.sys

But I want to delete the files those are also DELETED on SOURCE:
I am using following command with --delete parameter.. still no luck:
rsync -avzh -e 'ssh -p 8011' --delete --progress user@SOURCE:/home/all-bacups/* DESTINATION/dir

Is it something I am missing ?

msg7086

--delete is enough. Must be some other problems...

globalRegisters

Try moving the ssh portion to the back like this:

rsync -avzh --delete --progress -e 'ssh -p 8011' user@SOURCE:/home/all-bacups/* DESTINATION/dir

Saahib

@globalRegisters said:
Try moving the ssh portion to the back like this:

rsync -avzh --delete --progress -e 'ssh -p 8011' user@SOURCE:/home/all-bacups/* DESTINATION/dir

Was earlier doing that way only

@msg7086 said:
--delete is enough. Must be some other problems...

There is no error or output or something like that.. how to figure it out ?

msg7086

My bad.

You should copy the directory into the new place, instead of copy each separate files.

Thus, try rsync ...... source/all-backups/ dest/dir

When you use the star *, it will be expanded to separate individual files, and thus extra files are not deleted because they are not included in the list at all!

globalRegisters

All you need is the "--delete" option and it has to work.

The reason I said to move it to the end is because that is the way I run rsync and it works for me that way.

Have you tried it without the quotations around the ssh portion?

globalRegisters

I just realized your command includes the "h" option for help.

Try removing it, there should be no reason to have it there.

msg7086

@globalRegisters said:
I just realized your command includes the "h" option for help.

Try removing it, there should be no reason to have it there.

-h, --human-readable output numbers in a human-readable format

globalRegisters

The man page I saw had the "h" for help.

Saahib

@msg7086 said:
My bad.

You should copy the directory into the new place, instead of copy each separate files.

Thus, try rsync ...... source/all-backups/ dest/dir

When you use the star *, it will be expanded to separate individual files, and thus extra files are not deleted because they are not included in the list at all!

Nailed.. that is logical and actually worked too
Thanks..

@globalRegisters said:
I just realized your command includes the "h" option for help.

Try removing it, there should be no reason to have it there.

I donno why I added it there, may be du -sh (human readable stuff) .. but indeed its -h for help here.. removed it.

msg7086

@globalRegisters said:
The man page I saw had the "h" for help.

facepalm Actually -h appears before both human-readable and help. But it works as human-readable, at least on version 3.1.