On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Wayne Davison <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Jean-Christophe Guillain > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> $ rsync -aH --del --ignore-errors --filter="- /lost+found/*" --filter="- >> /.snapshot/*" /data/orig_disks/vol-opt/ /data/bckp_disks/vol-opt/ > > Note that it is more efficient to leave off the trailing '*' so that the > directory is excluded rather than the contents of the directory. With the > '*', rsync has to list the dir's contents and see if it matches the exclude > or not. However, that has the side effect of not creating (empty) lost+found > and .snapshot dirs on the destination if they don't already exist.
Yes, I wanted the empty directories to be created, but not their contents. >> >> rsync 1599 root 3r DIR 0,25 12288 >> 12117707 /data/orig_disks/vol-opt/opt/.snapshot/some/directory/somefile > > That .snaptshot doesn't match your excludes since it's down inside the opt > subdir, not at the root of the transfer. If you want to exclude .snapshot > dirs anywhere in the tree, leave off the leading slash. If you want to > exclude that dir in particular, add the missing /opt prefix. Dammit ! I think I read this line twenty times and I never noticed the "double" opt... I didn't know there were other .snapshot directories in the three, and I want to exclude their contents too. I'll leave off the leading slash. Thank you very much for your answer, jC -- 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
