[Linux-disciples] Rsync includes and excludes

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:13:47AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Why can't you just do:
>   rsync -r ~/private/consulting_gigs remoteUser at domain.com:

Well, that was just a simplified example of what I want to
do. Really what I'm trying to do is

rsync --exclude-from file1 --include-from file2 / remoteUser at domain.com:

where the include and exclude files could potentially
contain many patterns.

> Have you read the INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES part of the rsync manpage?

Yep. It didn't help. This is the relevant part:

        rule.  For instance, this wont work:

	      + /some/path/this-file-will-not-be-found
	      + /file-is-included
	      - *

       This fails because the parent directory "some" is excluded by the * rule, so rsync never visits any of the files
       in the "some" or "some/path" directories.  One solution is to ask for all  directories  in  the	hierarchy  to  be
       included by using a single rule: "+ */" (put it somewhere before the "- *" rule).  Another solution is to add spe
       cific include rules for all the parent dirs that need to be visited.  For instance, this set of rules works fine:

	      + /some/
	      + /some/path/
	      + /some/path/this-file-is-found
	      + /file-also-included
	      - *

which confuses me, because that's basically what I'm doing.
I have --exclude-from=exclude, which contains only '**',
then --include-from=include, which contains a list of paths
to back up. Whether I do

rsync --exclude-from=exclude --include-from=include

or switch the order in which exclusions and inclusions are
processed, it doesn't work.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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