excluding based on filesystem?
Eberhard Moenkeberg
emoenke at gwdg.de
Wed Jan 19 22:22:17 GMT 2005
Hi,
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Danny Sauer wrote:
> Wayne wrote regarding 'Re: excluding based on filesystem?' on Wed, Jan 19 at 15:26:
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:44:42AM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
>>> So, what I'm looking for is possibly a way to make excludes relative
>>> to the root at the beginning of the operation - so that if I specify
>>> "rsync --exclude /dev host:/ /backup/host", only /dev on host is
>>> excluded, not /home/user/dev, etc.
>>
>> That is precicely what already happens. The only way it would exclude a
>> "dev" further down in the transfer is for you to have specified "dev"
>> instead of "/dev" -- the leading slash anchors the exclude at the base
>> of the transfer.
>
> The man page says
> Note that, when using the --recursive (-r) option (which is
> implied by -a), every subcomponent of every path is visited
> from the top down, so include/exclude patterns get applied
> recursively to each subcomponent.
> Perhaps that should be amended to mention that this only happens when
> the pattern doesn't start with a '/'? :) Or maybe I should just pay
> more attention to the difference between transfer-base and file-base...
I can confirm from practice what Wayne said.
And, for your mind, a path starting with / is always absolute.
Here: absolute to the module base.
rsync does a "path matching", not a primitive "pattern matching", it
seems...
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)
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