Christian Volker wrote:

Yohoo!

I'm using rsnapshot-1.3.0-1.el5.rf (from DAG) and rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf (from CentOS5) together.

Rsnapshot now starts every task with the "--relative" switch. Without this switch it will backup all subsequent folders (like /proc and so on) which isn't desired. So I can't omit the "--relative".

But there was a bug for rsync prior to 2.6.9 that it won't delete files from the destination directory when "--relative" and "--delete" are used together. See at http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS for this.

Now I figured out that this bug is fixed in FedoraCore5. See http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg0010... .html The version there is rsync-2.6.9-1.FC5.1.

In CentOS5 I have rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf

Now my question is if this bug is fixed in CentOS5/ RHEL5?

If not, is there something scheduled to fix it or should I build the rsync package from the source of the FC5 tree?

Thanks!

Christian Volker

I am not sure if it is fixed in CentOS-5 or not, but that is not relevant since you are NOT using the CentOS-5 rsync.

rsync-2.6.9-1.el5.rf ... the rf stands for RPMForge .. so, that is the RPMForge version of rsync.

rsync-2.6.8-3.1 <== that is the version of rsync from CentOS-5.