Rsync help needed...

[Matt McCutchen]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:20 -0500, Linus Hicks wrote:
> rsync -a srchost:/ / --files-from=dbf-list
> 
> and dbf-list would contain this:
> 
> p02/oradata/OSID/redo01.log
> p03/oradata/OSID/redo02.log
> p04/oradata/OSID/redo03.log
> p01/oradata/OSID/system01.dbf
> p04/oradata/OSID/undotbs01.dbf
> p03/oradata/OSID/sysaux01.dbf
> p03/oradata/OSID/users01.dbf
> p03/oradata/OSID/example01.dbf
> p03/oradata/OSID/data01.dbf
> p02/oradata/OSID/index01.dbf
> p01/oradata/OSID/control01.ctl
> p02/oradata/OSID/control02.ctl
> p03/oradata/OSID/control03.ctl
> s01/oracle/product/10.2.0/dbs/initOSID.ora
> 
> Do you see any problems with this?

That should work fine; that is exactly how --files-from is typically
used.  Note that rsync looks for dbf-list on the computer on which you
are starting rsync; if dbf-list is on the other computer, use
--files-from=:dbf-list to indicate this.
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