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--- Comment #6 from Kevin Korb ---
If you want to sync files newer than say 3 days ago that is what --files-from
is for...
cd /source
find . -mtime -3 -print | rsync -vai --files-from=- . /target
The primary purpose of --files-from is to give rsyn
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--- Comment #5 from Alessio ---
(In reply to Wayne Davison from comment #4)
Well if it's by design I will not go further. But for me it's a missing
"feature" because one has to prepare the list beforehand while rsync could do
the job "while it's t
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Wayne Davison changed:
What|Removed |Added
Resolution|--- |WORKSFORME
Status|NEW
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--- Comment #3 from Kevin Korb ---
I didn't say anything specific about a remote host.
You excluded .cache then you told it to copy specific files some of which are
in .cache. If there was a file named .cache inside of a directory that you
told i
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--- Comment #2 from Alessio ---
(In reply to Kevin Korb from comment #1)
Excuse me, but i don't get it, what's the difference between excluding
(matching) the pattern from a --files-from and a remote host?
debugging the rsync transfer from the r
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--- Comment #1 from Kevin Korb ---
It did not copy the directory you excluded it copied the files within that
directory that you explicitly told it to copy and created the appropriate
directories to allow that to happen.
IOW, .cache is not relativ
