On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:00 +1000, James Robertson wrote: > I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me as you describe. I just > created a test setup. The commands I'm running are as follows: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync --version > rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /tmp/source/ > Thursday2008-09-11.bkf Tuesday2008-09-09.bkf Wednesday2008-09-10.bkf > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -t1 /tmp/source | head -n 1 > /tmp/BACKUPFILE > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /tmp/BACKUPFILE > Thursday2008-09-11.bkf > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync -ah --delete --numeric-ids --stats > --delete-excluded -include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE --exclude='*' > /tmp/source/ /tmp/destination/ > .d..t...... ./ > > Number of files: 1 > Number of files transferred: 0 > Total file size: 0 bytes > Total transferred file size: 0 bytes > Literal data: 0 bytes > Matched data: 0 bytes > File list size: 20 > File list generation time: 0.001 seconds > File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds > Total bytes sent: 42 > Total bytes received: 26 > > sent 42 bytes received 26 bytes 136.00 bytes/sec > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls /tmp/destination/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
The -include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE is short a dash, causing it to be parsed as -i -n -c -l -u -d --rsh=-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE . Change it to --include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE . Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html