Consider the following directory structure
/foo/aaa/*/*
/foo/bbb/*/*
/foo/ccc/*/*
I want to sync all of /foo,
but exclude /foo/aaa
but not exclude any other occurances of "aaa" or "foo/aaa" (be they
files or dirs) that might occur within the other dirs /foo/bbb/*
/foo/ccc/* etc
I don't want
On 15.05.2013 04:13, Brian K. White wrote:
> How can I get it to exclude just the top-level directory "/foo/aaa" ?
With a '/' at the beginning you pin the pattern to the beginning.
You don't use "/" at the end of directory names, so i'm not sure if the
correct one is:
/aaa
or
/foo/aaa
With a '/'
On 5/15/2013 4:13 AM, Brian K. White wrote:
Consider the following directory structure
/foo/aaa/*/*
/foo/bbb/*/*
/foo/ccc/*/*
I want to sync all of /foo,
but exclude /foo/aaa
but not exclude any other occurances of "aaa" or "foo/aaa" (be they
files or dirs) that might occur within the other dir
On Wed 15 May 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
> Consider the following directory structure
>
> /foo/aaa/*/*
> /foo/bbb/*/*
> /foo/ccc/*/*
>
> I want to sync all of /foo,
> but exclude /foo/aaa
> rsync -avz /foo ${DEST}::root
Firstly, I always recommend that with directory transfers you add a
trail
On 5/15/2013 5:17 AM, Paul Slootman wrote:
On Wed 15 May 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
Consider the following directory structure
/foo/aaa/*/*
/foo/bbb/*/*
/foo/ccc/*/*
I want to sync all of /foo,
but exclude /foo/aaa
rsync -avz /foo ${DEST}::root
Firstly, I always recommend that with dire
On Wed 15 May 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
> > rsync -avz /foo/ ${DEST}::root/foo/
>
> This syntax does work in his case, and is easier to read, because it
> ends up using the exact same specification "/foo/" and "/foo/" for
> both source and dest, but the syntax I had was also correct. I no
> lon
On 5/15/2013 8:35 AM, Paul Slootman wrote:
On Wed 15 May 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
rsync -avz /foo/ ${DEST}::root/foo/
This syntax does work in his case, and is easier to read, because it
ends up using the exact same specification "/foo/" and "/foo/" for
both source and dest, but the syntax
Hello,
The manual says that rsync treats bind mounts on UNIX (Linux) to the
same filesystem as being on the same filesystem.
I have a server with a pile of bind mounts to the same filesystem for
some access control/ease of use for FTP users modifying websites. This
makes my backups using rs
On Wed 15 May 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
> I did in the case when it was only one pattern, but that was just a
> simplified example.
>
> The actual job involves too many include and exclude patterns to use
> --include & --exclude, or even --include-from and --exclude-from,
> because the patterns
