Only a single subdirectory of many gets synced

[M-Stenzel]

Hi community,

I want to to rsync the whole /home directory, including ca. 20 subdirectories, to a remote server, this is the command I use

rsync \
 -av --del \
 -e 'ssh' \
 --exclude=/bin/* \
 --exclude=/boot/* \
 --exclude=/dev/* \
 --exclude=/dumps/* \
 --exclude=/etc/* \
 --exclude=/foo/* \
 --exclude=/lib/* \
 --exclude=/lib64/* \
 --exclude=/lost+found/* \
 --exclude=/media/* \
 --exclude=/mnt/* \
 --exclude=/omd/* \
 --exclude=/opt/* \
 --exclude=/path/* \
 --exclude=/proc/* \
 --exclude=/public/* \
 --exclude=/root/* \
 --exclude=/run/* \
 --exclude=/sbin/* \
 --exclude=/selinux/* \
 --exclude=/srv/* \
 --exclude=/sys/* \
 --exclude=/tmp/* \
 --exclude=/usr/* \
 --exclude=/var/* \
 /* user@server:/home/*

On the destination server I find the directories /home/user1, /home/user2, /home/user3, and so on but only the content of /home/user1 includes all subdirectories, the other user's directories are empty!!

If I do a dry-run it tells me that it covers every subdirectory content. So there is a mismatch between a wet-run and a dry-run!!!

rsync version is 3.4.1, run on x86_64 Linux

Any ideas?

[michaelmess-de]

Try to add "-v" (verbose) or to increase log level do it multiple times, e.g. "-vvv" as option to rsync. You may also use "--debug", but that is currently not passed and applied to the remote process via parameter, thus you will only see local issues, not any issues occurring on the remote process. Maybe I will write a patch to fix that, soon.

Maybe the output will tell you, what actually happens and what goes wrong there.