Re: rsync script not excluding dirs
Parv wrote: in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Pat Maddox thusly... I have a backup script that runs nightly, and I want it to exclude certain dirs (ports, obj, etc). However when I run the script it doesn't exclude anything, leaving me with pretty massive backups. ... /, /var, /usr, and /backup are all on different partitions. The key part is at the bottom where it calls rsync and excludes dirs. Can someone tell me what's wrong with the script? ... PRE="/usr/local/bin/rsync" ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* / --exclude=/dev --exclude=/backup /backup/${DAY1}/ ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* /var /backup/${DAY1}/ ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* --exclude=/usr/src --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/usr/obj /usr /backup/${DAY1}/ Your script seems to have wrapped by your mail client. Anyway, in rsync(1) man page, see "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" section, point 2 ... o if the pattern ends with a / then it will only match a direc- tory, not a file, link, or device. In other words, none of your exclude patterns for directories end in '/' , thus the backup, src, ports, etc. directories are not excluded. I'm not sure that's true. It says a pattern ending in slash only matches a directory, it doesn't say that a pattern not ending in slash won't match a directory. However, the patterns are anchored wrongly. Absolute patterns are still relative to to tree being transferred. So --exclude=/usr/obj when transferring /usr would try to match /usr/usr/obj, which is wrong. Take the name of the filesystem being rsynced off those patterns and you should find them excluded as you want. The rsync man page does try to explain this: it is a bit long and can take a few reads, but look at the FILTER RULES and ANCHORED PATTERNS... sections. --Alex PS Your flags are way over the top. -a already includes -rlptgoD so you don't need them again. Do you really want -R and I think that knocks the top-level directory off the files which are unpacked? And if this is a backup, then why -u? That's for use when you are changing files on the destination and don't want those changes overwritten, which doesn't sound like what you are doing. And if it is a backup, then you might also want -H to preserve hard links. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: rsync script not excluding dirs
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Pat Maddox thusly... > > I have a backup script that runs nightly, and I want it to exclude > certain dirs (ports, obj, etc). However when I run the script it > doesn't exclude anything, leaving me with pretty massive backups. ... > /, /var, /usr, and /backup are all on different partitions. The key > part is at the bottom where it calls rsync and excludes dirs. Can > someone tell me what's wrong with the script? ... > PRE="/usr/local/bin/rsync" > ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* / --exclude=/dev > --exclude=/backup /backup/${DAY1}/ > ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* /var /backup/${DAY1}/ > ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* --exclude=/usr/src > --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/usr/obj /usr /backup/${DAY1}/ Your script seems to have wrapped by your mail client. Anyway, in rsync(1) man page, see "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" section, point 2 ... o if the pattern ends with a / then it will only match a direc- tory, not a file, link, or device. In other words, none of your exclude patterns for directories end in '/' , thus the backup, src, ports, etc. directories are not excluded. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
rsync script not excluding dirs
I have a backup script that runs nightly, and I want it to exclude certain dirs (ports, obj, etc). However when I run the script it doesn't exclude anything, leaving me with pretty massive backups. Here's the entire script. /, /var, /usr, and /backup are all on different partitions. The key part is at the bottom where it calls rsync and excludes dirs. Can someone tell me what's wrong with the script? Pat #!/bin/sh HOME=/ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin export HOME PATH STAGE DAY MONTH YEAR DAY2 DAY1 PERMS SVR PRE ARG PERMS=`date +%Y%m%d` SVR="cantona" # forward dating DAY1=`date +%Y/${SVR}/%m/%d` # reverse dating for removal of old backup DAY2=`date -j -v-1w +%Y/${SVR}/%m/%d` PRE="/usr/local/bin/rsync" ARG=`ps -ax | grep ${PRE} | grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{ print $1 }'` if [ $ARG -gt 0 ]; then echo "$PRE is running" return $? fi # Remount the filesystem for writing mount -u -o rw /backup # snapshot of the perms ls -lRafh /* > /backup/perms_snaps/${PERMS}.${SVR}.perms.snap tar -czf /backup/perms_snaps/${PERMS}.${SVR}.perms.snap.tar.gz /backup/perms_snaps/${PERMS}.${SVR}.perms.snap rm /backup/perms_snaps/${PERMS}.${SVR}.perms.snap chmod 400 /backup/perms_snaps/* # create the backup dirs for the day/week/year mkdir -p /backup/${DAY1}/ # rm the old backups rm -rf /backup/${DAY2} ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* / --exclude=/dev --exclude=/backup /backup/${DAY1}/ ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* /var /backup/${DAY1}/ ${PRE} -bapoguLxSRC --exclude=*.core --exclude=*~* --exclude=/usr/src --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/usr/obj /usr /backup/${DAY1}/ # Make the file system read only again mount -u -o ro /backup ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"