On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 01:09:30AM -0400, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: > --delete only works when you sync a dir not individual files. So... > rsync -vai --delete --include='g*' --include='G*' --exclude='*' > /share/Public/videos/ /share/Backup-HDD-03
That kinda didn't work: rsync -vai --delete --include='S[A-Z]*' --include='S[a-h]*' --exclude='*' \ /share/Public/videos/ /share/Backup-HDD-04 I deleted, manually, a directory on the backup HDD to test this out and got the following result: NASD30354.ZADMIN <795> ./Backup-HDD-04.list.sh sending incremental file list .d..t...... ./ cd+++++++++ Sense8/ cd+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/ cd+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/ sent 25,683 bytes received 82 bytes 17,176.67 bytes/sec total size is 1,666,354,406,916 speedup is 64,675,117.68 None of the files in those two directories were copied to the backup HDD after the directories were created. I then modified the script so that I could include directories that start with "s": rsync -vain --delete --include='S[A-Z]*' --include='S[a-h]*' \ --include='s*' --exclude='*' \ /share/Public/videos/ /share/Backup-HDD-04 I then got the following result (yes, in dry-run mode): NASD30354.ZADMIN <802> ./Backup-HDD-04.list.sh sending incremental file list >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e01.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e02.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e03.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e04.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e05.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e06.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e07.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e08.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e09.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e10.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e11.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-1/sense8.s01e12.1080p.webrip.x264-2hd.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e01.1080p.webrip.x264-skgtv.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e02.1080p.webrip.x264-skgtv.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e03.1080p.webrip.x264-skgtv.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e04.1080p.webrip.x264-skgtv.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e05.1080p.webrip.x264-skgtv.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e06.1080p.webrip.x264-morose.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e07.1080p.webrip.x264-morose.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e08.1080p.webrip.x264-morose.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e09.1080p.webrip.x264-morose.mkv >f+++++++++ Sense8/Season-2/sense8.s02e10.1080p.webrip.x264-morose.mkv sent 26,729 bytes received 132 bytes 53,722.00 bytes/sec total size is 1,749,617,318,885 speedup is 65,135,971.07 (DRY RUN) I kinda see what is going on, based upon the man page and filter rules. I was worried about getting stuff that starts with "s", so I renamed a file so that the frst letter was now a "s" and it was listed for copying. Since a majority of the files start with all-caps, I don't think I'll run into an issue of copying more files that I really wanted. Thanks for the tip, as I now have something to work with. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net /~\ The ASCII 6082066...@email.uscc.net (140 char limit) \ / Ribbon Campaign Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ X Against http://vidiot.net/ / \ HTML Email "What do you say Beckett. Wanna have a baby?" - Castle to Det. Beckett "How long have I been gone?" Alexis after seeing Castle and Beckett w/ baby - Castle - 11/25/13 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html