Searching the mail list archives, I found this old link
[https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2423] with an example of how
to use an external script with filter to select files by date.
It looks like it could do exactly what I need, which is only match files
less than 3 days old, but it doesn't seem to work.
I have added the filter to the rsyncd.conf on the source server, which
receives the native client connection over a network.
filter='-!| newer-filter mm/dd/yy'
This is the script as suggested.
From the cmd line it returns a line of 0's or 1's if I pipe an 'ls' of
the folder to it, so seems ok.
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#!/bin/bash
# We convert times to seconds since the Epoch so
# we can compare them with [ -gt ].
cutoff_time=$(date +%s -d "$1")
while IFS='' read fname; do
# Compare file's mtime to cutoff time
if [ $(stat --format=%Y $fname) -gt $cutoff_time ]; then
echo -n 1
else
echo -n 0
fi
done
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However, the rsync log output shows the desired files are parsed, but
none are never selected for sending.
Has anyone a working example of using an external script as a Filter
source ?
Thanks in advance,
Mark.
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