Beginner help: Excluding directories by pattern

[Kevin Korb]

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You want --exclude-from=file
You can cut-and-paste those path patterns into that file just as they are.

For the ACL errors you are probably writing to a filesystem that
doesn't support those ACLs.

On 12/18/11 13:58, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
> I apologize in advance for asking a beginner question, but I
> really could not figure this from the manual page.
> 
> I want to copy some files with rsync, and not copy others.
> 
> The stuff that I do not want to copy looks like this:
> 
> System Volume Information/_restore*/RP* WINDOWS/Prefetch/* 
> Documents and Settings/leila/Local Settings/Application 
> Data/Google/Chrome/Application/*/Installer/chrome.7z Documents and
> Settings/leila/Local Settings/Application 
> Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*/Cache/*
> 
> Note that there are spaces in these names. Note that there are 
> wildcards in the middle of the name. Note that I'm looking to 
> transfer/create an empty directory in some cases.
> 
> So, just a quickie: how?
> 
> My current command line for rsync looks like this:
> 
> rsync -A -a --delete --rsync-path="/opt/local/bin/rsync
> --fake-super --log-file=/tmp/rlog.txt" /cygdrive/c/ 
> "rsync at kleiman-ibook:/Volumes/Windows\ rsync\rsync"
> 
> and if there's a good way to shorten that, I'd love to know.
> 
> Incidentally, I get a LOT of error messages: Kleiman-ibook:Windows
> TM michael$ head -5 /tmp/rlog.txt 2011/12/17 19:34:37 [10315]
> receiving file list 2011/12/17 19:34:39 [10315] rsync: set_acl: 
> sys_acl_delete_def_file(Documents and Settings): Attribute not
> found (93) 2011/12/17 19:34:39 [10315] rsync: set_acl: 
> sys_acl_delete_def_file(Documents and 
> Settings/Administrator.LEILA-DELL): Attribute not found (93) 
> 2011/12/17 19:34:39 [10315] rsync: set_acl: 
> sys_acl_delete_def_file(Documents and 
> Settings/Administrator.LEILA-DELL/Application Data): Attribute not 
> found (93) 2011/12/17 19:34:39 [10315] rsync: set_acl: 
> sys_acl_delete_def_file(Documents and 
> Settings/Administrator.LEILA-DELL/Application Data/Identities): 
> Attribute not found (93)
> 
> This continues for a very long time :-).

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