ssh & keep absolute local paths from --include-from=file remotely

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Mon Nov 10 12:05:21 EST 2003


On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:58:07AM +0100, Thomas Otto wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to do a IMHO rather trivial thing with rsync via ssh:
> 
> I have some files under /etc and some under /home/thomas, I want to 
> rsync just these to a remote PC with a similar setup where they should 
> end up in the same dirs, and this with a single rsync call. Bascially 
> 'tar --files-from FILE -cf - | netcat' and 'cd /; netcat | tar -xf -' 
> with the optimisation rsync and the security ssh provides.
> 
> I went up to doing fancy stuff like
> 
> rsync -av -e ssh --include  '*/' --exclude '*' --include-from=file / 
> thomas at 10.10.164.170:/
> 
> (file containing \n seperated /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/profile 
> /home/thomas/testfile)

It would be much simpler to just put all your patterns in
the --include-from file.  _Read_ the "EXCLUDE PATTERNS"
section of the manpage.

> 
> ..yet no success. rsync ends up either stating all files recursivly so i 
> ^C or it just tries to dump them all into / (where I don't have write 
> access).
> 
> So all I want is rsyncing files while preserving their _absolute_ paths 
> on the target machine which doesn't seem possible. Can someone point me 
> to a patch or so? If not consider this as a feature request :)

Doing this is a snap, you just need to understand the
implications of the pattern matching.

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