iinclude/excludes and symbolic links

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Mon Nov 7 22:09:32 GMT 2005


On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:50:28PM -0800, Eric Horne wrote:
> rsync -rvzd --include-from=incfile /top/level/dir remote::share

Your problem is that the trailing "dir" in the source is the base of the
transfer, so including "/B/" will not match anything anywhere -- you'd
need to use "/dir/B/" instead.  Alternately, include a trailing slash
after the "dir" (and add a trailing "/dir" to the destination to end up
in the same place) and your original includes will work fine.

As the manpage says:  if you run the transfer with --dry-run (-n) and
look at the names that rsync outputs via -v, those names (with an added
leading slash) are what should be used in an include/exclude file for
an exact match.

..wayne..


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