Rsync File listing

Travis Quarterman travisq at gmail.com
Fri May 11 15:54:52 GMT 2007


Paul, this solution of redirecting the files into /tmp does not contain the
contents of the files on remote host, since I wanting to store the files and
there content on local machines I not sure this is will work.

On 5/11/07, Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri 11 May 2007, Travis Quarterman wrote:
> > Subject: Rsync File listing
>
> > Can someone assist me in using rsync to ssh into a remote server to
> obtain
> > the file listing? As it appears I have some files on a remote server
> that I
> > need to pull, however there are many files in the remote server
> directory,
> > to why I am wanting to only pull a certain (-mtime -1).
> >
> > Here is what I have so far:
> > /usr/local/bin/rsync -e ssh -avz --delete
> --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync
> > --files-from=- /some/dir remoteuser at martins:/home/remoteuser | find
> > server*/adhoc/remotedir* -mtime -1 -print  /local/dir/
>
> Where is the input for the --files-from=- coming from?  What I see above
> is that you're piping the output from rsync into find, which I cannot
> see being useful...
>
> I would suggest first doing:
> ssh remoteuser at martins 'find server*/adhoc/remotedir* -mtime -1 -print >
> /tmp/rsync-list'
>
> and then
> /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz --delete --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync
> --files-from=:/tmp/rsync-list remoteuser at martins:/home/remoteuser
> /local/dir/
>
> although I hope you don't mind having any other files in /local/dir/
> deleted (due to the --delete).
>
>
> Paul Slootman
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Travis Quarterman, Sr.
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