Need help of exclusion options in rsync-3.0.6

[Jignesh Shah]

Yup, it is working.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Carlos Carvalho <carlos at fisica.ufpr.br>wrote:

> Matt McCutchen (matt at mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 26 July 2009 17:45:
>   >On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:37 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:
>  >> I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns
>  >> but still want to preserve some other. For example consider below
>  >> source and destination directory hierarchy.
>  >>
>  >>   Source                    Dest
>  >>   ----------                   ---------
>  >> /foo/bar/                  /foo/bar/
>  >>     | -> baz                  | -> baz
>  >>     | -> xyz                  | -> xyz
>  >>     | -> abc                  | -> abc
>  >>                                  | -> old-baz
>  >>
>  >> I am below comand using --delete-excluded  and as a result rsync
>  >> deletes exluded directories "baz" and "abc" and also deletes
>  >> "old-baz". I want to preserve the "old-baz" and "baz" directories on
>  >> destination side and want "abc" to gets deleted. Could you tell me how
>  >> to tell rsync to do this?
>  >>
>  >> rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --delete-excluded --exclude=/baz --exclude=/abc
>  >> desthost:/foo/bar/
>  >
>  >Recall that an exclude filter is shorthand for a hide plus a protect if
>  >--delete-excluded is off, or just a hide if it is on..  Since you want
>  >some of your filters to protect destination files from deletion but not
>  >others, your best bet would be to drop the --delete-excluded and specify
>  >individual hide, protect, and plain exclude (hide+protect) filters.  For
>  >more detail, carefully read the "FILTER RULES" section of the man page.
>  >
>  >Something like the following should do what you described:
>  >
>  >rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --exclude=/baz --filter='H /abc' \
>  >      --filter='P /old-baz' desthost:/foo/bar/
>
> Would just --filter='P /abc' (without the --filter='H...') also work?
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