On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 15:00:57 +0200, A. Dumas wrote:

> On 12-08-18 14:08, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> I think so. When rsync gets to the file, it realises what it last
>> backed up as a file is now a directory, so it replaces the file with
>> the directory and its contents.
>
> No, what I'm saying is that normally it doesn't, at least not how I use
> it, with -au options. For me, that results in an error message "Unable
> to copy [etc]" or similar and that subtree being skipped. So either you
> use other (--delete-etc?) options, or maybe with only -a (without -u)
> rsync will replace instead of skip. Idk, haven't tested the exact
> implications of rsync options recently.
>
I use a different set of options, because we have slightly different
requirements: I don't want rsync to stop except for serious errors.
I'm running with these options:

-avzE --delete --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --log-file=$log

plus several excludes so it doesn't back up stuff pseudo-filestore
structures like /run and /proc


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