Exclude

Tomasz Ciolek tmc at goldweb.com.au
Fri Oct 19 13:41:29 EST 2001


 Read the doco oon the eclude/indlude files/ Eclude file takes - and + before the name so that you can build a unified exclude-include list in a single exclude file.

Regards
TMC
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:52:29PM -0500, Chao,Eisen R. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm running rsync between an NT client and a Solaris 7 Server (Ver 2.4.6).
> 
> I'd like to be able to exclude the following directory:
> 
> 	/opt/IBMHTTPDLOG/archivelogs
> 
> but retrieve
> 
> 	/opt/IBMHTTPDLOG
> 
> My setup is:
> 
> 	rsync -av -p -e rsync at server1.cna.com:/opt/IBMHTTPDLOG/
> F:/opt/IBMHTTDLOG
> 	(client)
> 
> 	rsync --daemon --exclude-from=/etc/rsync.exclude
> 	(server)
> 
> 
> What I get is *everything* including the contents of the dir ./archivelogs.
> What is the proper syntax ? I've tried setting up my entry in rsync.exclude
> as:
> 
> 	'/opt/IBMHTTPDLOG/archivelogs'
> 	archivelogs/
> 	'archivelogs/'
> 	./archivelogs
> 	./archivelogs/
> 
> I've also tried setting the server-side rsync daemon as --exclude
> <blah-blah> to no avail.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Eisen Chao
> CNA Insurance
> 
> 

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