Wayne Davison wrote:
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:28:08PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:
In looking at man rsync, it does not appear to both
--exclude /usr/ and --include /usr/local/
Correct, you can't exclude /usr and still get to /usr/local. What you
want to do is to include /usr/local/ and exclude /usr/local/* (in that
order) without specifying a rule for /usr (unless you need to override
a more general exclude).
I start rsync at / and the files I wish to save are in /usr/local
plus /home and some other directories.
I'd suggest putting +/- rules into a file and using --exclude-from. For
instance:
+ /home/
+ /usr/
+ /usr/local/
- /usr/local/*
+ /some/
+ /other/
+ /other/directories/
- /other/*
- /*
..wayne..
Thank you very much _again_ for very informative reply to my question.
In my case I wanted to start at / and include directories of interest to
me for backup purposes. /usr is not needed but /usr/local is.
I solved the problem another way some months ago using a for loop which
selects the directories I want to save. All except /usr/local start
from / so I thought it might be possible to simplify the script. Guess
I'll stick with the for loop which works well.
Larry
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