Re: Question about include/exclude rules
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:22:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rsync works fine for me (the rules are reported below) except a point,
rsync create an empty folders structure that I don'want.
The only way to get rsync to not create directory hierarchies that don't
contain *.txt files is to actually remove the directories from the
transfer, either through more targeted directory includes, or by using
--files-from (though the latter would not make it easy to delete missing
files).
So, instead of the + */ rule you would need to maintain some include
rules, perhaps using something like this perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $dir = shift;
chdir($dir) or die Unable to chdir to $dir: $!\n;
print + *.txt\n;
my %hash;
open(IN, 'find . -name *.txt |') or die Failed to run find: $!\n;
while (IN) {
chomp;
s#^\./##;
next unless s#/[^/]*\.txt$##;
my $path = '';
foreach (split(/\//)) {
$path .= $_ . '/';
next if $hash{$path};
$hash{$path} = 1;
print + $path\n;
}
}
print - *\n;
And use it like this:
new-script ./source | rsync -avz --delete-excluded --exclude-from=- ./source/
./dest
..wayne..
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Question about include/exclude rules
Hi all, I'm trying to made a filtered backup of a windows PC. My target is to create a recursive backup of only files reported in the include/exclude files (i.e. only *.txt). the rules (reported below) work well, but also create an empty folders structure that I don'want. Rsync works fine for me (the rules are reported below) except a point, rsync create an empty folders structure that I don'want. I'm trying to explain better. Suppose that the source folder is: ./source/a.txt ./source/afolder ./source/afolder/b.txt ./source/afolder/c.doc ./source/bfolder/ ./source/bfolder/a.doc ./source/bfolder/ ./source/bfolder/cfolder/ ./source/bfolder/cfolder/e.doc . I used the following syntax: rsync -avz --delete-excluded ./source/ ./dest --exclude-from=exclude.txt where the rules in the exclude.txt are: + *.txt + */ - * rsync create in the dest folder: ./dest/a.txt ./dest/afolder ./dest/afolder/b.txt ./dest/bfolder/ ./dest/bfolder/cfolder/ Please note if I omit the rules + */, I cannot fetch recursively the folders and thus the ./source/afolder/b.txt file. I misleading anything? There is anyway to exclude the creation of the empty folders? My environment is: Win XP Pro SP2 rsync 2.6.4 (from cygwin) Thanks in advantage, Luca -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
