Does ssh work by itself? Authorized keys setup, no passphrase, etc? Haven't used some of the options myself so don't know how they may interact but appears --ignore-errors and --delete-excluded should be used with caution. I usually use something like rsync -avz --delete user at client:/dir_to_backup /backup_dirs/ manually for backup. Get rsync working without ssh first. Ssh works great once set up, but can be finicky getting set up properly IMO. Bob Steve Cayford wrote: >I'm having a struggle getting rsnapshot/rsync to delete files on my backup >machine that have been deleted on my desktop machine. > >At first I thought I was using rsnapshot wrong, but I turned up the logging >and grabbed the actual rsync command and ran it, but it still won't delete >files that have been deleted from the source. > >The command is: >"/usr/bin/rsync -ax --ignore-errors --delete --numeric-ids --relative >--delete-excluded --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh root at client:/home/ /backupdir/client/ " > >The backup machine executing this call is running debian amd64 stable, with >rsync 2.6.4, the client/source is running debian x86 testing with rsync 2.6.6. >It's not reporting any errors, but I added the --ignore-errors just to make >sure that wasn't the issue. > >Any thoughts or suggestions? Am I doing something clueless? > >Thanks. > >-Steve >