Yup, it is working. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Carlos Carvalho <car...@fisica.ufpr.br>wrote:
> Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 26 July 2009 17:45: > >On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:37 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: > >> I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns > >> but still want to preserve some other. For example consider below > >> source and destination directory hierarchy. > >> > >> Source Dest > >> ---------- --------- > >> /foo/bar/ /foo/bar/ > >> | -> baz | -> baz > >> | -> xyz | -> xyz > >> | -> abc | -> abc > >> | -> old-baz > >> > >> I am below comand using --delete-excluded and as a result rsync > >> deletes exluded directories "baz" and "abc" and also deletes > >> "old-baz". I want to preserve the "old-baz" and "baz" directories on > >> destination side and want "abc" to gets deleted. Could you tell me how > >> to tell rsync to do this? > >> > >> rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --delete-excluded --exclude=/baz --exclude=/abc > >> desthost:/foo/bar/ > > > >Recall that an exclude filter is shorthand for a hide plus a protect if > >--delete-excluded is off, or just a hide if it is on.. Since you want > >some of your filters to protect destination files from deletion but not > >others, your best bet would be to drop the --delete-excluded and specify > >individual hide, protect, and plain exclude (hide+protect) filters. For > >more detail, carefully read the "FILTER RULES" section of the man page. > > > >Something like the following should do what you described: > > > >rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --exclude=/baz --filter='H /abc' \ > > --filter='P /old-baz' desthost:/foo/bar/ > > Would just --filter='P /abc' (without the --filter='H...') also work? > -- > 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 >
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