pruning old files

[Michael Salmon]

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 09:46:36 AM +0900 Shinichi Maruyama 
<marya at st.jip.co.jp> wrote:
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| jw> In the past i found that using find was quite good for this.
| jw> Use touch to create a file with a mod_time just before you
| jw> started the last sync.  Then from inside $src run
| jw> 	find .  -newer $touchfile -print|cpio -pdm $dest
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| For pruning, how about to add the feature to rsync.
| Is it difficult ?
|
| 	--exclude-older=SECONDs
| 		exclude files older than SECONDs before
| 	--ignore-older=SECONDs
| 		ignore any operations with the files older than
| 		SECONDs before
| 		differ from --exclude-olders, these files are not
| 		affected from --include files or --delete-excluded
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Wouldn't a better solution be to add a file list option, similar to cpio, 
to rsync? That would also satisfy those who want complex include and 
exclude rules. Probably 2 options are required, one for newline terminated 
names and the other for null terminated names.

/Michael
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