Re: [qmirror] Re: error during rsync - web page

[jason andrade <ja...@dstc.edu.au>]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Henk P. Penning wrote:

>     receiving file list ... opendir(bugs/shadow): Permission denied
>     done
>     IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
>     bugs/data/
>     skipping non-regular file dist/404.html
>     skipping non-regular file dist/binaries/macosxserver
>     skipping non-regular file dist/binaries/osf1
>     skipping non-regular file dist/binaries/sinix
>     skipping non-regular file docs/404.html
>     foundation/
> 
>   Note the 'IO error - skipping file deletion'.

try adding 

--exclude="shadow/"

or maybe

--exclude="bugs/shadow/"

>   I never see one without the other, so they could be related.
>   I think 'skipping file deletion' is to be avoided.

yes - i once ended up an extra 5G of data on a disk because i didn't
realise rsync was _really_ not deleting files..

-jason