include-exclude patterns

[jw schultz]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:08:54AM -0500, marco wrote:
> Hi, 
> I just subscribe to ask you a question about patterns in exclude-include
> files.
> I just want some folders to be rsynced to a remote machine.
> What I tried is :
> IncludeFile
> -------------------------
> /etc/
> /var/lib/zope/
> - /*
> -----------------------
> result of 
> $$ rsync -avvrn --delete --delete-excluded
> --include-from=/backup-include -e ssh / /backup
> is
> expand file_list to 4000 bytes, did move
>  including directory etc because of pattern /etc/
>  excluding directory usr because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory bin because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory var because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory boot because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory dev because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory home because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory lib because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory mnt because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory proc because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory root because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory sbin because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory tmp because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory floppy because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory cdrom because of pattern /*
>  excluding directory initrd because of pattern /*
>  done
> 
> What about /var/lib/zope/ ?
> 
> I lost my afternoon on this
> Could you explain me what I am missing ?

You forgot to include /var/ and /var/lib/ so it never even
sees /var/lib/zope/

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