On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Ivan Kovalev wrote: > rootdir/*/2002-08-01 > rootdir/*/*/1-Aug-02 > rootdir/*/2002-08/01
As the documentation states, if you use --exclude=*, you need to include every parent directory on the way down to the directories in question. So, it's easy to see that the rules you gave will never allow the decent into the subdirs needed to find the 2002-08-01 dir because these subdirs get excluded by the "*" before they are ever read. Since the directories you require are not at the same level from the root, you're probably going to need to be pretty specific about what directories to allow leading up to this deeper dir. If we assume that this directory is either in the subdir "foo" or "bar", the following include file would work (with no trailing exclude of "*"): + /*/ - /* + /*/2002-08-01/ + /*/2002-08/ + /*/foo/ + /*/bar/ - /*/* + /*/*/1-Aug-02/ + /*/2002-08/01/ - /*/2002-08/* This may transfer a few extra (empty) subdirs on the way down to the 2002* dirs, but that can only be avoided by getting more specific with the first-level include/exclude directives (like we did with the second level directives). On the flip side, you could replace the two lines that specify second-level dirs (the "foo" and "bar" lines) with a single line that specified "+ /*/*/" if you don't mind having empty 2nd-level dirs that didn't have a 1-Aug-02 dir in them. Note that I prefer using limited exclusions like those above instead of a catch-all --exclude='*' because it makes it easier to include the contents of directories (since the default is to include everything that does not match one of the include/exclude rules). It also avoids improper parsing of a rule like this: + /*/2002-08-01/** This is trying to allow an entire tree of files in a directory one level deep, but it actually gets parsed like this: + /**/2002-08-01/** which can sometimes cause problems. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html