rsync ignoring some new files

[jw schultz]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:54:27AM -0500, Brian Vaughan wrote:
> Thanks, J.W.   Removing the -C worked.   But it also showed that the -C 
> didn't do what I thought it did.  The man page says:
> 
>           -C, --cvs-exclude           auto ignore files in  the  same way 
> CVS does
> 
> For some reason I read this to mean that it was excluding the cvs-specific 
> files in the 'CVS' directories that cvs puts everywhere it is used.
> 
> Exactly what is it really excluding?

Reread the manpage, it provides a list.

> 
> 
> 
> At 01:58 PM 3/27/2003 -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:06:31PM -0500, Brian Vaughan wrote:
> >> I have found several instances where rsync refuses to copy a new file.
> >> I am using it to sync changes from a staging web server to production
> >> servers, and there are certain files that it just plain won't copy.  The
> >> file is totally new.  No such name has ever existed on the target 
> >server(,
> >> or on the source server until now).
> >>
> >> In this instance, I added 3 completely new files to the same
> >> directory.  Two are copied perfectly, and one of them (ending in tar.Z) 
> >is
> >> ignored completely.  All files have the same permission.
> >> -rw-rw-r--   1 cvsuser  cvsgroup   12420 Mar 27 13:37
> >> lesstif-0.93.18-5.i386.rpm
> >> -rw-rw-r--   1 cvsuser  cvsgroup 28452909 Mar 27 13:37 
> >fame90linux_x86.tar.Z
> >> -rw-rw-r--   1 cvsuser  cvsgroup 2539144 Mar 27 13:37
> >> lesstif-0.93.18-5.src.rpm
> >>
> >> The command that I am using
> >>     /usr/local/bin/rsync -avuz -C ---status
> >> --exclude-from=/disk1/tools/scripts/syncwww_exclude --rsh=ssh
> >> /disk1/wwwstage/noncvs/downloads www2.fame.com:/disk1/noncvs
> >>
> >> No error is given.  So as many times as I execute the above, it says no
> >> files transferred:
> >> .....
> >> building file list ... done
> >>
> >> Number of files: 30
> >> Number of files transferred: 0
> >> Total file size: 684817120 bytes
> >> Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
> >> Literal data: 0 bytes
> >> Matched data: 0 bytes
> >> File list size: 874
> >> Total bytes written: 886
> >> Total bytes read: 20
> >>
> >>
> >> The exclude only has a couple server-dependent file names.  No wildcards.
> >>
> >> I am running rsync 2.4.6 on Solaris 8.
> >
> >The -C option.
> >
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