rsync ignores include rule - analogic to other that works

[Julian Davchev]

Ah, stupido me, of course different filesystem. Thanks a lot.

Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:01 +0200, Julian Davchev wrote:
>   
>> I have this rsync to backup specific directories from one PC to another
>> in local network.
>> All is working smooth except for /storage dir. I just don't get why as I
>> am using
>> exact same why as I do for other dirs that work.
>>
>> I see that it matches it like e.g
>> [sender] showing directory /storage because of pattern /storage/
>> ..........
>>
>> But then again there is no /storage/** like for etc for example.
>> [sender] showing directory /etc because of pattern /etc/
>> [sender] showing file /etc/csh.login because of pattern /etc/**
>> ........
>>
>>
>> So at the end /storage dir is created but no content inside. Is it
>> possible reason
>> that it is too huge and/or too many files inside? But I don't see any
>> error on -vv
>>
>> Here is script I use
>>
>> export RSYNC_RSH="ssh -o Compression=no -x";
>> rsync -aHvx  \
>>         --include-from=backup.includes \
>>         --progress --numeric-ids --delete \
>>          --delete-excluded --relative --verbose \
>>         / root at 192.168.1.10:/root/backup/laptop/lin/
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> backup.includes
>> + /etc/
>> + /etc/**
>> + /var/
>> + /var/log/
>> + /var/log/**
>> + /root/
>> + /root/**
>> + /usr/
>> + /usr/local/
>> + /usr/local/**
>> + /storage/
>> + /storage/**
>> - *
>>     
>
> Is /storage on a different filesystem from / ?  If so, the contents of
> the directory are being excluded by the -x (--one-file-system) option.
> Remove this option.  Or, if you want to include the contents of /storage
> but not other things on non-root filesystems, then give /storage as an
> additional source argument:
>
> rsync -aHvx  \
>         --include-from=backup.includes \
>         --progress --numeric-ids --delete \
>          --delete-excluded --relative --verbose \
>         / /storage root at 192.168.1.10:/root/backup/laptop/lin/
>
> This takes advantage of the behavior mentioned in the man page
> description of -x: "This does not limit the user’s ability to specify
> items to copy from multiple filesystems, just rsync’s recursion through
> the hierarchy of each directory that the user specified".
>
> If the -x isn't the issue, I don't know what is going on because I set
> up your scenario with rsync 2.6.9 and it copied the contents of /storage
> correctly.
>
> Matt
>
>