copy /backup/current/home/???user>/Maildir -> /home/???user>/Maildir ?

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:24:46AM +0200, Francis.Montagnac at inria.fr wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:04:24 +0200 Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> 
> > Is there also a pure rsync solution (without any shell loop) maybe based
> > on --include/--exclude?
> 
> I thing the following will do:
> 
>   cd /backup/current/home
>   rsync -av --delete \
>         --include '/*/' \
>         --include '*/Maildir/***' \
>         --exclude '*' \
>         . /home
> 
> Beware that the *** needs at least version 2.6.7.

Thanks for that suggestion. It's always nice to have working examples of
include/exclude patterns in one's toolbox.

Have a nice day,