Include-from ?

[Hardy Merrill]

Max Kipness [mkipness at geniant.com] 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 /*.

I'm NO rsync expert, but here's my guess - you need
something like this:

+ Rootdir/Test2/
- Rootdir/*

HTH.
-- 
Hardy Merrill
Red Hat, Inc.

> 
> Thanks,
> Max
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jw schultz [mailto:jw at pegasys.ws] 
> > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 2:05 AM
> > To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: Include-from ?
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:35:22AM -0500, Max Kipness wrote:
> > > Hello -
> > > 
> > > I just finished doing a search of the archives and couldn't seem to 
> > > get this answered.
> > > 
> > > Example, I have a root directory containing the following 
> > directories:
> > > 
> > > /Test1
> > > /Test2
> > > /Test3
> > > 
> > > I want to rsync only /Test2 and all subdirs under. So my 
> > include-from 
> > > file looks like:
> > > 
> > > + Test2/*
> > > - /*
> > > 
> > > This doesn't work as nothing is synced, and if I do a -vv 
> > it tells me 
> > > that nothing is being synced because I've excluded all.
> > 
> > I'm sure it didn't say that.  Instead it would have spit out
> > a bunch of lines including:
> > 	excluding directory Test2 because of pattern /*
> > That is because you never included Test2, only everything
> > under it.
> > 
> > | + Test2/
> > | - /*
> > 
> > Would be what you want.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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