On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:17:03AM +0300, Coroiu Cosmin Marius wrote: > Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:18:31PM +0300, Coroiu Cosmin Marius wrote: > > > Hello all ! > > > I want to save some of the directories and files from my home dir.For > > > that I create a new directory where I moved the file for sync and I made > > > some symlinks to the dirs which I want to include in sync.The hidden > > > directoris (like .netscape) are not included in sync. How can I say to > > > rsync to include these directories too and how can I exclude a list of > > > directories (I have .mozilla too and I don't want do synchronize the > > > cache dir from .netscape and .mozilla ) ? > > > > Have you checked the man page for --include and --exclude? > > > > If you want rsync to copy files that are on the other end of a symlink, > > you'll need to use -L. > > > > - Dave Dykstra > > Hello Dave , > > I used already the -L option and it works but only for symlinks with > other name than .name ..All this symlinks (.netscape , .mozilla ) are > not included in synchronization.If I rename them it works ...That it's > my question : how can include hidden dirs and symlinks ?
Normally rsync will not skip "." files. Send me your complete rsync command line and the ls -l listings of your symlinks. If your whole reason for the symlinks is to control what to include and exclude, chances are you can skip the symlinks completely and just use --exclude. - Dave Dykstra