What is the problem you are having with rclone?
I'm getting a listing error: symlink no such file or directory in a file that is excluded from the sync. Which results in an I/O error and disables remote file deletion.
The symlink target in fact doesn't exist, but I can't delete the symlink, but I excluded it from the sync, which should not result in an I/O error, or at least, should not result in disabling remote file deletion.
I don't know if this is related to the --delete-excluded flag.
What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
$ rclone --version
rclone v1.55.0
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.16.2
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: cmount
Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)
$ uname -a
Linux biggie 5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (2021-03-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Backblaze B2
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
rclone sync \
--stats 0 \
--copy-links \
--delete-excluded \
--filter '- /etc/resolvconf/run' \
--filter '+ /etc/**' \
--filter '- *' \
--fast-list \
/ remote:/server/etc
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
[remote]
type = b2
account = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
key = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
hard_delete = false
A log from the command with the -vv flag
2021/04/14 01:00:16 ERROR : etc/resolvconf/run: Listing error: symlink: stat /etc/resolvconf/run: no such file or directory
2021/04/14 01:00:42 ERROR : B2 bucket remote path servers: not deleting files as there were IO errors
2021/04/14 01:00:42 ERROR : Attempt 1/3 failed with 2 errors and: not deleting files as there were IO errors
...same errors 2 more times...
2021/04/14 01:01:10 Failed to sync with 2 errors: last error was: not deleting files as there were IO errors