Need help with exclude
daniel
djoneill at gmx.net
Tue Nov 25 20:53:10 EST 2003
> Hi all,
>
> I am having *massive* problems trying to exclude a single directory from an rsync.
>
> I have serv1 and serv2. I am trying to rsync /foo/test from serv1 to /foo on serv2 I want to exclude the directory /foo/test/dir1 So I try:
>
> rsync -av --exclude-from=/foo/rsync.excludes /foo/test serv2:/foo
>
> rsync.excludes contains:
> /foo/test/dir1/
>
>
> This is not working.
>
> I also try:
>
> rsync -av --exclude=/foo/test/dir1/ /foo/test serv2:/foo
>
> and the exclude still does not work.
>
> I have also tried other variations like:
>
> rsync -av --exclude=/dir1/ /foo/test serv2:/foo
>
> also to no avail.
>
rsync -av --exclude=/test/dir1/ /foo/test/ serv2:/foo/
rsync -av --exclude=/dir1/ /foo/test/ serv2:/foo/test/
Thank you for clarifying the issue with regard to the fact that the exclude pattern is relative to the destination path. The fact that:
rsync -av --exclude=/foo/test/dir1/ /foo/test/ serv2:/foo/
does not work seems wrong. What should be excluded is being specified with no ambiguity.
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