destination files not being deleted

[dp...@realtruck.com]

I have successfully gotten lsyncd to work between two Debian Jessie servers.  Everything works great with 1 single exception.

My expectation that is confirmed by documentation is that if the file doesn't exist on the destination, it will be deleted.  What is happening is that the only time files that exist on the destination and not in the source are deleted is if I restart the lsyncd service.  Is that an expected behavior, or am I missing something?

This is my configuration file:

root@nginx1:/etc# cat /etc/lsyncd/lsyncd.conf

----

--

settings = {

  logfile = "/var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.log",

  statusFile = "/var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.stat",

  statusInterval = 2,

}

-- nginx2

sync{

  default.rsync,

  source="/binarydata/",

  target="192.168.2.41:/binarydata/",

  rsync={

    compress = true,

    acls = true,

    verbose = true,

    owner = true,

    group = true,

    perms = true,

    rsh ="/usr/bin/ssh -l root -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa",

    _extra = { "--delete" }

  }

}root@nginx1:/etc#

And my server:

root@nginx1:/etc# cat os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
root@nginx1:/etc# uname -a
Linux nginx1 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@nginx1:/etc# dpkg -l | grep lsync
ii lsyncd 2.1.5-2 amd64 daemon to synchronize local directories using rsync
root@nginx1:/etc#

Any suggestions?

[Axel Kittenberger]

"My expectation that is confirmed by documentation is that if the file doesn't exist on the destination, it will be deleted"

I don't get what this means, if it doesn't exist on the destination, there is nothing to delete.

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[dp...@realtruck.com]

my apologies.  If it exists on the destination and not on source, it should be deleted.  This is not happening.

[Axel Kittenberger]

First I would remove the     _extra = { "--delete" } line and see what happens, _extra is a dirty workaround that shouldn't be used unless absolutely necessary.

Especially there is no reason to add --delete, since Lsyncd will do that by itself when its necessary

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 5:30 PM, dpich via lsyncd <lsy...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

my apologies.  If it exists on the destination and not on source, it should be deleted.  This is not happening.

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[dp...@realtruck.com]

Alright...

Here is my config now:

----

--

settings = {

  logfile = "/var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.log",

  statusFile = "/var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.stat",

  statusInterval = 2,

}

-- nginx2

sync{

  default.rsync,

  source="/binarydata/",

  target="192.168.2.41:/binarydata/",

  rsync={

    compress = true,

    acls = true,

    verbose = true,

    owner = true,

    group = true,

    perms = true,

    rsh ="/usr/bin/ssh -l root -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa",

  }

}

So the results are still happening.  The only way I can get the destination file that should be deleted to actually be deleted is by restarting lsyncd.

Every 1.0s: ls -hal /binarydata/                                     Thu May 12 17:04:37 2016


total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   21 May 12 17:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K May 12 12:39 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 May 12 17:00 file.txt

In the lsyncd logs after restart:

==> lsyncd.log <==

Thu May 12 17:08:33 2016 Normal: --- TERM signal, fading ---

Thu May 12 17:08:33 2016 Normal: recursive startup rsync: /binarydata/ -> 192.168.2.41:/binarydata/

tail: lsyncd.stat: file truncated

Lsyncd status report at Thu May 12 17:08:33 2016

Sync1 source=/binarydata/

There are 1 delays

active Init

Excluding:

  nothing.

Inotify watching 1 directories

  1: /binarydata/

==> lsyncd.log <==

sending incremental file list

deleting file.txt

sent 48 bytes  received 24 bytes  144.00 bytes/sec

total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

Thu May 12 17:08:33 2016 Normal: Startup of "/binarydata/" finished.

tail: lsyncd.stat: file truncated

[Sakshi Sood]

I am also facing the same issue ...Have you found any solution yet ?