Include-from ?

[Max Kipness]

There is more to it than that. I'm working on a perl script that backs
up many hosts and I wan't to be able to only modify the include/exclude
file for each host. The rsync commands run though a look for each host.

Thanks,
Max

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Liedtke [mailto:lists at liedtkeweb.de] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 8:33 AM
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Include-from ?
> 
> 
> On Sunday 03 August 2003 15:14, Max Kipness wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. I actually did not specify my 
> configuration right 
> > so that it is where I was going wrong. However, I'm still 
> not able to 
> > only rsync /Test2.
> >
> > My root directory is:
> >
> > /Rootdir
> >
> > And then subdirectories of /Rootdir are:
> >
> > /Test1
> > /Test2
> > /Test3
> >
> > To get only /Test2, I tried the following in the include-only file:
> >
> > + Rootdir/Test2/
> > - /*
> >
> > This syncs nothing and gives me: excluding directory 
> Rootdir because 
> > of pattern /*.
> 
> Maybe I missed something important here, but what's keeping 
> you from just 
> using:
> rsync -az /Rootdir/Test2/ /somebackupDir/
> 
> This would only sync the contents of Test2 to somebackupDir. 
> For your task (as you described it) there's no need for 
> --include or --exclude 
> options...
> 
> Hansen
> 
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