Complex include/excludes with rsync?

[Brian Mathis]

Thanks for the reply.  I had also posted to serverfault and got a good
reply that explains better
(http://serverfault.com/questions/150269/complex-includes-excludes-with-rsync/150519#150519)

I think the fact that this comes up so often means there's a problem
with the documentation.
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 19:16 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote:
>> I'm trying to use rsync filters to achieve the following result:
>>
>> Include /
>> Exclude /home
>> Include /home/user1
>>
>> I've been doing a lot of experimentation and at this point I'm just
>> staring at the man page.  Rsync filters seem to be complicated, and a
>> result of that I hope they are also powerful.
>>
>> How does one achieve this common pattern with rsync?
>
> This has been asked many times before, for example:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-June/017805.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2008-February/020073.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2009-August/023758.html
>
> The key is that you don't want to actually exclude /home because that
> will prevent rsync from even descending to /home/user1 (search the man
> page for "ineffectual").  Instead, exclude all the children of /home
> other than /home/user1, for example:
>
> + /home/user1
> - /home/*
>
> Alternatively, there is a trick you can do with multiple source
> arguments:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-February/014761.html
>
> --
> Matt
>
>