Hi,
Is your space character different from the one above (other than
being escaped
As far as I see, no - you are thinking of tab or sth.?
Unfortunately, the issue arose another time: I'm backing up a system via
ssh - sudo rsync ... again, I specified '--filter=:- /nobackup.txt' in
the
Hi there,
I'm thrilled of this just discovered feature of rsync: --filter
Now I want to use it in BackupPC, so I added this to $Conf{RsyncArgs}:
'--filter=:- /nobackup.txt'
My problem is that there seems to be something wrong with the escaping
of the space ... I observed that with an rsyncd as
A nice workaround to this backslashing problem is to place your filter
statements into a file - say /home/user/rsync_filters - and add a
corresponding statement to your arguments:
--filter=.\ /home/user/.usync/filters
If you later want to add additional filter statements to your
Hi,
Juergen Harms wrote on 2009-01-29 10:41:22 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping]:
Thomas Karcher wrote on 2009-01-29 09:59:51 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Arguments
for --filter don't get proper escaping]:
I'm thrilled of this just discovered
Hi Holger,
I observed that with an rsyncd as backup partner,
everything seems to work fine, but with a command line rsync, it's odd:
Running: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids
--perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times
--block-size=2048
Is your space character different from the one above (other than
being escaped
For a single filter statement there is no diffence whatever - the
advantage comes if you add additional filter statements - if Thomas
starts setting things up, why not in a way that scales?
Sorry for the other two
