Rclone sync does not delete files on destination when excluded on source

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

When using rclone sync A B --exclude="/C" it does not remove C on the destination B even though C exists on B.

I'm trying to sync a backup drive to Google Drive, and forgot to exclude the minio-0 directory. After exclude minio-0 directory, rclone does not remove that directory on the destination.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.50.2
- os/arch: linux/amd64
- go version: go1.13.6

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Source: Local Disk
Destination: Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone sync -v /Five gdrive:/Data/Backup/Five --exclude="/lost+found/**" --exclude="/minio-*/**"

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id =
client_secret =
token = ***
root_folder_id = ***

A log from the command with the -vv flag

2022/01/06 12:26:41 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.50.2" starting with parameters ["rclone" "sync" "-vv" "/Five" "gdrive:/D
ata/Backup/Five" "--exclude=/lost+found/**" "--exclude=/minio-*/**"]                                                    
2022/01/06 12:26:41 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/tuananh/.rclone.conf"                                         
2022/01/06 12:26:42 DEBUG : minio-0: Excluded                                                                           
2022/01/06 12:26:42 DEBUG : lost+found: Excluded
...
2022/01/06 12:26:43 INFO  : Google drive root 'Data/Backup/Five': Waiting for transfers to finish
2022/01/06 12:26:43 INFO  : Waiting for deletions to finish
2022/01/06 12:26:43 INFO  : 
Transferred:             0 / 0 Bytes, -, 0 Bytes/s, ETA -
Errors:                 0
Checks:                47 / 47, 100%
Transferred:            0 / 0, -
Elapsed time:          0s

2022/01/06 12:26:43 DEBUG : 10 go routines active
2022/01/06 12:26:43 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.50.2" finishing with parameters ["rclone" "sync" "-vv" "/Five" "gdrive:/
Data/Backup/Five" "--exclude=/lost+found/**" "--exclude=/minio-*/**"]
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That’s a really old version.

If you exclude it, it’s excluded and I would not expect it to do anything with it since you specified to exclude it.

3

hi, if this is a one-time mistake, perhaps delete the dest folder and move on.

filters work on the source, not the dest.
by default, if a file is excluded from the source, then rclone will not delete that corresponding file in the dest.

if you want rclone to delete excluded files then might try
https://rclone.org/filtering/#delete-excluded-delete-files-on-dest-excluded-from-sync

4

YES!!! This is the exact flag I am looking for. Thank you for the hint!

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