Hi all,
Here is what I thought an interesting problem. I'm wondering if there is a
trick for this.
I am using rsync to do a minimal backup, by synchronizing a certain directory
(/home/httpd) from machine webserver to another machine (backup) every night.
At some point, our developer changed the directory structure in the
webserver. He removed some directory, and instead make it a symlink to
another directory.
Then rsync ran at night, and it got confused. This is how I run rsync from the
backup server
jdoe@backup$> rsync -e ssh -avzu root@webserver:/home/httpd/html
/home2/backup/webserver/
It got confused because it tries to delete the directory in backup, but it
cant because some file exists. It then tries to create the symlink with the
same name, and it fails again because that filename already exists (as a
directory). Below is some of the error message. Any tricks to have rsync
resolved this? I can of course correct this manually by rm -rf ing the
offending directories in the backup server, but just wondering if there's
clever way to do this.
delete_file: rmdir(html/OJTA2dev/ojta/c1c/precursors/archeo/medwheel_ic) :
Directory not empty
rsync: symlink "html/OJTA2dev/ojta/c1c/precursors/archeo/medwheel_ic" ->
"../../../media/precursors/archeo/medwheel_ic": File exists
delete_file: rmdir(html/OJTA2dev/ojta/c1c/precursors/archeo/stonehenge_ic) :
Directory not empty
rsync: symlink "html/OJTA2dev/ojta/c1c/precursors/archeo/stonehenge_ic" ->
"../../../media/precursors/archeo/stonehenge_ic": File exists
...
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1045)
Thanks for any help.
RDB
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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