rsync digest, Vol 1 #403 - 4 msgs

[Rene Medellin]

> If you have a set of files that are "common" to each side but for whatever reason the content of which you want to keep separate and "localized" then look into using --include and --exclude rules or perhaps an exclusion file. The syntax always gets me
> and it might take a couple of tries to get the right sequence of element inclusions.

Rene



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> From: tim.conway at philips.com
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:13:47 -0600
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> There's nothing in rsync to do that.  How about making the files and directories all belong to another user, set the sticky bit and write for your rsync user on the directories, unset write for the files, and rsync that way, then chown afterwards?  the
> updates to existing files will fail, leaving you only with new.
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> perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, 19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), ".\n" '
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> Vipul Ved Prakash <mail at vipul.net>@lists.samba.org on 10/13/2001 02:46:38 AM
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> Subject:  transferring files that don't exist on remote system.
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> Hi,
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> Is there a way to transfer only those files that don't exist on the remote
> system? That is, I don't want to update common files even when the local
> system has new versions of common files.
>
> best,
> vipul.
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