On Friday 08 February 2008 04:32:28 pm Richard Geoffrion wrote: > Red Mop wrote: > > On Friday 08 February 2008 09:22:52 am Red Mop wrote: > >> On Friday 08 February 2008 08:54:04 am Jarkko Ypäjä wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> How can I exclude all the other foldrs in the system and include only > >>> 1? <snip> > >> > >> Instead of trying to exclude all and include one, you can just have it > >> back up the one folder. <snip> > > > > I suppose there is a reason to do exclude all, include 1. Say you're > > backing up a rather large, though unchanging server over a slow link. > > Running init would take forever, so you can init with just one directory, > > then slowly either add includes or remove excludes during the nightly > > backups. This is similar to a trick I learned from unison. > > rsync doesn't lend itself to includes very well. It is usually > recommended to try to come up with another solution. Encourage those > wanting to do includes to think outside the box. > > I do seem to remember something coming across the list about making > includes more friendly.....hmm.. > > Jarkko, > Try > http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2007-April/thread.html#1271 > and http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2007-April/001294.html
make a directory specifically for dirvish, then mount -o ro,bind other directories into it to where the files actually are could work too. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
