problem with parent directories

[tim.conway at philips.com]

     -R, --relative
          Use relative paths. This means that the full path names
          specified  on  the  command line are sent to the server
          rather than just the last parts of the filenames.  This
          is  particularly  useful  when you want to send several
          different directories at the same time. For example, if
          you used the command



          rsync foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/



SunOS 5.7           Last change: 29 May 2001                    8






User Commands                                            rsync(1)



          then this would create a file called foo.c in /tmp/  on
          the remote machine. If instead you used



          rsync -R foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/



          then a file called /tmp/foo/bar/foo.c would be  created
          on the remote machine. The full path name is preserved.

Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
303.682.4917
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
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Longmont, CO 80501
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Ben Turner <ben at staf.pi.be>
Sent by: rsync-admin at lists.samba.org
01/23/2002 03:26 AM

 
        To:     rsync at samba.org
        cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
        Subject:        problem with parent directories
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hello,

i am having problems syncing directories. what i want to accomplish is the 
copying of a directory from a beta environment to a live environment. at 
the moment what i am doing is this:

/usr/local/bin/rsync -rtv --include '*/' --include 'dir/to/publish' 
--exclude '*' /web/beta/betawebsite user at webserver::web/livewebsite

unfortunately this takes ages, as rsync of course runs through the entire 
list of directories on the beta site. the problems that arise are that 
parent directories sometimes do not exist (in this example 'dir' might not 
exist), as they have not yet been published to the live environment, so i 
don't really see any other way of doing this?

can anybody nudge me into the right direction? :)

thanks

Ben

-- 
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