> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> '--filter=-!r /srv/vhome/*/users/*/.mail/' u...@oldserver:/srv/vhome /srv/
>
> See the manpage discussion of anchoring at the top-level of the transfer for
> why
> your filter rule should not have a "/srv" prefix. The 'r' modifier makes the
> rule
> only apply on the receiving side, which means you're specifying a protect
> rule to
> prevent removal of files, but does not stop the files from being copied.
> The '!' modifier negates the match, which makes it protect everything from
> deletion except .mail dirs (though, since its anchored wrong, it would seem
> to
> protect everything from deletion).
>
> Perhaps you wanted to specify --filter='- /vhome/*/users/*/.mail/' (for both
> excluding and deleting of that dir)? If not -- if you're really trying to
> copy
> just hte .mail dirs, you have a lot more things to change.
>
> ..wayne..
Thank you Wayne,
I'm actually trying to copy the .mail dirs.
Based on your hints, I also tried the followings in the new server:
rsync -auEAXDSvz --delete-during --numeric-ids --compress-level=9 --stats
--super --bwlimit=15 --progress -e 'ssh -oCompression=no'
'--filter=+ /*/ + /*/users/ + /*/users/*/ + /*/users/*/.mail/ +
/*/users/*/.mail/* - *'
--dry-run u...@oldserver:/srv/vhome/ /srv/vhome/
rsync -auEAXDSvz --delete-during --numeric-ids --compress-level=9 --stats
--super --bwlimit=15 --progress -e 'ssh -oCompression=no'
'--filter=+ /*/ + /*/users/ + /*/users/*/ + /*/users/*/.mail/ +
/*/users/*/.mail/* - /**'
--dry-run u...@oldserver:/srv/vhome/ /srv/vhome/
this command (which perhaps follows your "you have a lot more things to change"
hint) yields exactly the same results of the previous (with '--filter=-!r
/srv/vhome/*/users/*/.mail/'). You may see that I'm not using the 'r' modifier
anymore.
I'm suspecting there is something wrong in the way the rsync pattern filtering
code works: it works most of the time, but occasionally it doesn't. In example
it keeps replicating the content in a /srv/vhome/ dir
(XXXXX/home/www/components/com_lightgallery/views/list/tmpl/index.html) which
can't resemble any of the '+' patterns given in --filter.
In example, adding some -vvv to a --list-only version of the above commands, I
see this:
[sender] flist start=1, used=82, low=0, high=81
[sender] i=1 /srv/vhome ./ mode=040755 len=2640 uid=0 gid=0 flags=5
[sender] i=2 /srv/vhome .DS_Store mode=0100640 len=21508 uid=0 gid=0
flags=0
[sender] i=3 /srv/vhome XXXXXX/ mode=040755 len=96 uid=0 gid=81 flags=4
Why the file /srv/vhome/.DS_Store is selected for the transfer? Which filtering
rule selects it?
I'm stuck.
Giampaolo
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