[Bug 11909] Doc patch for INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES

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[Bug 11909] New: Doc patch for INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES

2016-05-07 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11909 Bug ID: 11909 Summary: Doc patch for INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES Product: rsync Version: 3.1.2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement

Re: rsync very slow with large include/exclude file list

2015-06-15 Thread ray vantassle
I investigated the rsync code and found the reason why. For every file in the source, it searches the entire filter-list looking to see if that filename is on the exclude/include list. Most aren't, so it compares (350K - 72K) * 72K names (the non-listed files) plus (72K * 72K/2) names (the ones

Re: rsync very slow with large include/exclude file list

2015-06-15 Thread Ken Chase
This is similar to using fuzzy / -y in a large directory. O(n^2) behaviour occurs and can be incredibly slow. No caching of md5's for the directory occurs, it would seem (or even so, there are O(N^2) comparisons). /kc On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 06:02:14PM -0500, ray vantassle said: I

rsync very slow with large include/exclude file list

2015-06-15 Thread ray vantassle
I have a sensor collector system (very low-powered slow ARM cpu), and another system which daily pulls the data files from it for processing. There are about 1000 new files each day. As part of the processing it decides that certain of the files are of no interest, and adds them to an exclude

[Bug 10638] New: Add include/exclude files by mime type

2014-05-27 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10638 Summary: Add include/exclude files by mime type Product: rsync Version: 3.1.1 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5

Re: do not update dirtimes on --include='*/' --exclude='*'

2013-03-12 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:17:06 +0100 Mark Casey wrote: On 3/11/2013 4:18 PM, Mark Casey wrote: ... rsync -nav --no-t --numeric-ids --relative --include='*/' --exclude='*' \ /media/mnt/files /media/backups/mnt/ ... I was wrong. The command I listed is working after all, I just wasn't

do not update dirtimes on --include='*/' --exclude='*'

2013-03-11 Thread Mark Casey
that already exist in the destination. Or phrased the other way, I want to entirely skip transferring or updating directories that already exist in the destination, without regard to modtime. Right now I'm using something along the lines of: rsync -nav --no-t --numeric-ids --relative --include

Re: do not update dirtimes on --include='*/' --exclude='*'

2013-03-11 Thread Mark Casey
--no-t --numeric-ids --relative --include='*/' --exclude='*' \ /media/mnt/files /media/backups/mnt/ I've also tried messing with --checksum, --ignore-existing, and --size-only to get rsync to ignore modtimes but I think most of what I'm trying is intended to work on files and not dirs. Any

Understand include exclude script

2012-10-19 Thread Marc
hi i use a script to backup my homedir, that work but there are somes things i don't really understand. here my script rsync -arv --delete --prune-empty-dirs --include-from=include.txt --exclude-from=exclude  /home/bob /media/usbkey include.txt file + .Skype/*** + .local/ + .local/share/ +

Re: Understand include exclude script

2012-10-19 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The - .** and .* lines are both excluding all .files and .directories except for the ones you specifically included. For easyness of reading I would suggest you merge the two files together with something like: + .Skype/*** + .local/ + .local/share/

Re: Understand include exclude script

2012-10-19 Thread Marc
@lists.samba.org Cc: Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 6:18:09 PM Subject: Re: Understand include exclude script -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The - .** and .* lines are both excluding all .files and .directories except for the ones you specifically included.  For easyness of reading I

Re: Understand include exclude script

2012-10-19 Thread Kevin Korb
- From: Kevin Korb k...@sanitarium.net To: rsync@lists.samba.org Cc: Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 6:18:09 PM Subject: Re: Understand include exclude script The - .** and .* lines are both excluding all .files and .directories except for the ones you specifically included. For easyness

SOLVED: Re: include/exclude: I miss the point

2010-09-12 Thread Hans Troost
Hi Michal, (hope this mail is short enough for the list, previous one bounced: too big) Read, re-read, read again both your mail and the rsync-documentation (again) and think I get it now. First, regarding your comments (not all): 1. you are right, the .kabc\-files were missing (did not

include/exclude: I miss the point

2010-09-10 Thread Hans Troost
Hi all, I thought I understand how include/exclude and their precedences work (I read the user guide about this), but I seem to miss something. I have 2 questions about this, separated by == Question 1: -- I want to exclude the hidden directories except some sub-dirs or files

Re: include/exclude: I miss the point

2010-09-10 Thread Michal Soltys
On 10-09-10 21:13, Hans Troost wrote: So my exclude-files contains: .* the include file contains: .kde4/share/apps/kabc/distlists .kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf Result: 1. Success: 2 .kde4/share/apps/kabc-files Are you sure about that part ? '.*' ('H, .*' as seen by sending rsync) should

Re: include/exclude Problem

2010-04-28 Thread Benjamin Watkins
On 4/24/2010 8:30 AM, Michael wrote: I have a little problem to get my include / exclude working: I want to sync /etc /home and /usr/local (and all files/dirs beneath) to REMOTEHOST:/dest There are some huge files in /home which I want to exclued I have set up an include/exclude file but I

Re: include/exclude Problem

2010-04-27 Thread Henri Shustak
I want to sync /etc /home and /usr/local (and all files/dirs beneath) to REMOTEHOST:/dest There are some huge files in /home which I want to exclued I have set up an include/exclude file but I still get too much files. Also the excluded file is synced /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude-from

include/exclude Problem

2010-04-24 Thread Michael
Hi there I have a little problem to get my include / exclude working: I want to sync /etc /home and /usr/local (and all files/dirs beneath) to REMOTEHOST:/dest There are some huge files in /home which I want to exclued I have set up an include/exclude file but I still get too much files. Also

Re: include/exclude problems

2010-03-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Vitaly V. Ganusov wrote: However, it seems like a very messy way to sync a given file (by excluding bunch of other files that are not needed). Would you suggest a better way? Could you suggest a simple way/script to generate such a file (see attached) with only a few

include/exclude problems

2010-03-25 Thread Vitaly V. Ganusov
Dear Wayne, I am using rsync to synchronize my working files from home computer to the work computer. I want to sync only the files in some directories and no .files. However, I do need to sync several files from .mozilla director (addressbook, calendar and bookmarks) which are located in the

Re: include/exclude problems

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 25 Mar 2010, Vitaly V. Ganusov wrote: from excluded-utk.txt file: + .mozilla-thunderbird/ + .mozilla-thunderbird/afc5fv2p.default/ + .mozilla-thunderbird/afc5fv2p.default/abook.mab + .mozilla-thunderbird/afc5fv2p.default/storage.sdb - .mozilla-thunderbird/afc5fv2p.default/ImapMail

Re: include/exclude problems

2010-03-25 Thread Vitaly V. Ganusov
You are right, the reason that I did not see that before is that the file on the server was newer than on my desktop. It now all works. However, it seems like a very messy way to sync a given file (by excluding bunch of other files that are not needed). Would you suggest a better way? Could

Re: Yet another include/exclude question

2009-11-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Gutzler thomas.gutz...@gmail.comwrote: I thought --include=/this_dir/ --include=/this_dir/*** would do it, but it doesn't. The exclude * seems to overwrite the include matches: [sender] hiding file this_dir/foo because of pattern * Order is important.

Re: Yet another include/exclude question

2009-11-09 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Thanks everyone for your help, I've got what I want. Wayne Davison wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Gutzler thomas.gutz...@gmail.com mailto:thomas.gutz...@gmail.com wrote: I thought --include=/this_dir/ --include=/this_dir/*** would do it, but it doesn't. The exclude *

Re: Yet another include/exclude question

2009-11-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:45 +0800, Thomas Gutzler wrote: Thanks everyone for your help, I've got what I want. Wayne Davison wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Gutzler thomas.gutz...@gmail.com mailto:thomas.gutz...@gmail.com wrote: I thought --include=/this_dir/

Re: Yet another include/exclude question

2009-11-09 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:45 +0800, Thomas Gutzler wrote: Thanks everyone for your help, I've got what I want. My first attempt has been --include=*/ --include=*.foo --include=*.bar --include=/this_dir/*** --exclude=* which did nothing than *.foo and *.bar. Shuffling it

Re: Yet another include/exclude question

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Gutzler
What if I also want to include everything in /this_dir/ without running two instances and still being able to use --delete? I thought --include=/this_dir/ --include=/this_dir/*** would do it, but it doesn't. The exclude * seems to overwrite the include matches: [sender] hiding file this_dir/foo

Yet another include/exclude question

2009-11-05 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Hi, How can I include only *.foo and *.bar files in an rsync? To make it a bit more difficult: Those files can be anywhere in the directory structure. I've been reading and trying for a while but the best I got is all *.foo and *.bar files in ./ but none of the ones inside any directories.

idea: include/exclude files by mime type (use magic like file(1) does)

2009-06-18 Thread Shawn Rutledge
it doesn't make sense to sync any 64-bit binaries from other machines to that one. So I would like to exclude ELF executables or application/x-executable from the rsync. I think for speed, if the --exclude-mime option is given, rsync would need to process the other include/exclude patterns first

Re: include/exclude tutorial

2009-04-01 Thread Imbaud Pierre
, and the website, I just dont understand how include/exclude works. Is there a decent tutorial on the subject, I missed, for some reason? all I want is to take /var/tmp/*.conf files. I dont want to recurse down thru directories (but, for reasons hard to explain, I must have the recursive option

Include/Exclude problems

2009-01-25 Thread Mag Gam
hi, I am trying to rsync a very large filesystem which is about 3TB, but naturally I want to exclude a lot of things. However, I am really struggling with excluding directories. SRC=/dasd/december/2008 #Notice there is no trailing slash TARGET=/backup/december/2008 #Notice there is no trailing

Re: Include/Exclude problems

2009-01-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:29 -0500, Mag Gam wrote: I am trying to rsync a very large filesystem which is about 3TB, but naturally I want to exclude a lot of things. However, I am really struggling with excluding directories. SRC=/dasd/december/2008 #Notice there is no trailing slash

Re: Include/Exclude problems

2009-01-25 Thread Mag Gam
Thanks Matt for the response. The *** was the magic bullet and it works. Thanks. I was curious about the --link-dest argument. Will this speed up anything? I noticed it has the same default behavior of cp -al If its faster or more efficient I would be more than happy to implement this.

Include/Exclude Pattern for rsync ONLY the latest file of the src dir

2008-10-28 Thread Stefan Mosleitner
Hi, Is it possible to selcect a particular source directory and filter/select ONLY the latest file in this directory for rsync? -- 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

Re: Include/Exclude Pattern for rsync ONLY the latest file of the src dir

2008-10-28 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:58 +0100, Stefan Mosleitner wrote: Is it possible to selcect a particular source directory and filter/select ONLY the latest file in this directory for rsync? Selection of the latest file is not built into rsync, but it can be scripted easily: rsync OPTION... SRC/$(ls

Re: INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES problem on MAC OS

2008-09-27 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Matt McCutchen wrote: (since rsync does a binary comparison). rsync as well as the Unix kernel, typically. I have implemented i18n support in several programs before, I am working on a draft for BiDi text editing, and I had to look up what decomposition means. If that's the case, I doubt we

INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES problem on MAC OS

2008-09-25 Thread mathias lambeau
Bonjour, I would like to back up several desktop computer, and notebooks who are running under Mac OS, on a linux server with ext3 filesystem. I try several times with rsync, using include lists ( --include-from=my_include_file). The include list is working except for directory and filename with

having a problem with include/exclude logic

2008-02-21 Thread Sterling Windmill
I am trying to change our backup strategy from one where we include only certain directories and exclude everything else to a blanket include and a list of excluded files and/or directories. I am pulling files from an rsync 2.6.9 daemon with the following command: rsync -avrH --numeric-ids

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5182] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-10 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5182 --- Comment #7 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-10 02:12 CST --- Hello just re-built 3.0.0pre7 with the fix and everything works fine. Thanks a lot for the quick and efficient support ciao -- Configure bugmail:

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5182] New: -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5182 Summary: -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5? Product: rsync Version: 3.0.0 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5183] New: -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5183 Summary: -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5? Product: rsync Version: 3.0.0 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5183] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5183 --- Comment #1 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-09 11:15 CST --- oops, sorry for the duplicate please delete -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: ---

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5182] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5182 --- Comment #1 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-09 11:24 CST --- I can reproduce this. The problem happens even without the --include and --exclude options, but apparently only if the source argument is given as exactly ./. A workaround

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5182] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5182 --- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-09 11:57 CST --- Created an attachment (id=3091) -- (https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=3091action=view) Fix The attached patch seems to fix the bug; I don't know if it's the

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5182] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5182 --- Comment #4 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-09 12:02 CST --- thank you very much! I'm going home now: I'll try the patch tomorrow and let you know ciao -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5183] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5183 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5182] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5182 --- Comment #6 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-01-09 14:10 CST --- *** Bug 5183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5182] -r --include= --exclude= broken for version=3.0.0pre5?

2008-01-09 Thread samba-bugs
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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-05 Thread samba-bugs
| --- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-05 17:13 CST --- I have tried that too, but without any luck: INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES You can include and exclude files by specifying patterns using the +, -, etc. filter rules (as introduced

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-05 Thread samba-bugs
to check for 6 directories. The man page explains this: ``Note that, when using the --recursive (-r) option (which is implied by -a), every subcomponent of every path is visited from the top down, so include/exclude patterns get applied recursively to each subcomponent's full name (e.g. to include

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-05 Thread samba-bugs
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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-05 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4764 --- Comment #7 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-05 19:33 CST --- OK: + /some/path/this-file-will-not-be-found + /file-is-included - * This fails because the parent directory some is excluded by the '*' rule, so rsync never visits any of

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-05 Thread samba-bugs
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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-05 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4764 --- Comment #9 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-05 20:00 CST --- Also, check out the description of short-circuiting the descent in the man page: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html This appears near the start of the INCLUDE

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-05 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4764 --- Comment #10 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-05 20:16 CST --- (In reply to comment #7) OK: + /some/path/this-file-will-not-be-found + /file-is-included - * This fails because the parent directory some is excluded by the '*'

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] New: Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-04 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4764 Summary: Wrong include/exclude descriptions Product: rsync Version: 2.6.8 Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-04 Thread samba-bugs
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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4764] Wrong include/exclude descriptions

2007-07-04 Thread samba-bugs
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include/exclude

2007-01-16 Thread Julian Pace Ross
Hi all, I've read the man page but still seem to be a bit confused: Is it possible to specify include/exclude rules to transfer files, for example of type *.c and *abc, and exclude everything else? I am trying to avoid using --filter, since the list of patterns can be quite long and can

Re: include/exclude

2007-01-16 Thread Christophe LYON
14:28, Julian Pace Ross wrote: Hi all, I've read the man page but still seem to be a bit confused: Is it possible to specify include/exclude rules to transfer files, for example of type *.c and *abc, and exclude everything else? I am trying to avoid using --filter, since the list of patterns

Re: include/exclude

2007-01-16 Thread Julian Pace Ross
OK thanks! - Original Message - From: Christophe LYON [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Julian Pace Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED]; rsync@lists.samba.org Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:54 PM Subject: Re: include/exclude You can still use --filter: --filter=: my-rsync-filter will include the file my

Re: include/exclude

2007-01-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 1/16/07, Julian Pace Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] there is no --filter-from=FILE [...] The exact equivalent to --filter-from=FILE is --filter=. FILE . --filter=: FILE is similar but checks for a file by that name in each subdirectory for patterns that should apply to that

Re: include/exclude

2007-01-16 Thread Julian Pace Ross
Thanks for the insight! Up and running now. - Original Message - From: Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Julian Pace Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:40 PM Subject: Re: include/exclude On 1/16/07, Julian Pace Ross [EMAIL

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:24 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: rsync -avO --prune-empty-dirs --include=bookmarks.xml --filter='-! */' ~/.kde* some:dest/ I just discovered a way to transfer certain files and folders a few levels below a

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 10:27 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rsync --exclude=/.kde* --relative ~/./ \ ~/./.kde3.5/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml dest/ Nice, but what else might the --relative inclusion do? I remember some time in the

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All --relative does is cause rsync to duplicate the source path (minus any leading /) inside the destination. For example, the command cd / rsync usr/ home/matt/ /backup/ mixes my personal files with bin, lib, share, src, and so forth

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 19:20 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: However It can do more than your saying there I think when symlinks are involved it can have unexpected results. See this thread on gmane that nobody responded too. You'll notice I had an even murkier understanding then but still what

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-25 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:54:46PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: http://www.samba.org/cvsweb/rsync/rsync.yo If you'd prefer to see the man page in HTML format instead of raw yodl, the version from the last nightly tar file is always found here:

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:24 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: rsync -avO --prune-empty-dirs --include=bookmarks.xml --filter='-! */' ~/.kde* some:dest/ I just discovered a way to transfer certain files and folders a few levels below a generic exclude rule without having to include

Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm wrestling with include/exclude rules and not finding a way to do this: Simplified command: rsync -avv --exclcude-from=rsync_exclude \ ~/ /dest/ Backup ~/ including ~/.kde3.5/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml but excluding everything else under ~/.kde3.5 Here are some

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are some of what hasn't worked in an EXCLUDE file. + /.kde3.5/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml /.kde3.5/ + .kde3.5/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml /.kde3.5** + .kde3.5/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml .kde3.5/ There are a number of

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-22 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:14:29AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Still it seems there would be a more succinct way... There is if you use rsync 2.6.7 (currently in release testing): rsync -avO --prune-empty-dirs --include=bookmarks.xml --filter='-! */' ~/.kde* some:dest/ This

Re: Include Exclude .. a canonical way

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
here flumoxed by the ins and outs of include/exclude. I think I'm probably being too picky about what gets backedup and should probably just accept the room use hit and and get disked up until I'm ahead of the 8 ball. If one just backs up by directory ignoring what may be in it, all of a sudden

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 2240] Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2006-01-29 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2240 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|ASSIGNED|RESOLVED Resolution|

Dynamically determined include/exclude list.

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Mielke
Is there a way to define a module within rsyncd.conf such that its include/exclude list is dynamically determined by executing a host command, e.g. find? If it can't be done today, is it the sort of feature which would be considered for future development? -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox

Re: Dynamically determined include/exclude list.

2005-11-10 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:37:55PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: Is there a way to define a module within rsyncd.conf such that its include/exclude list is dynamically determined by executing a host command, e.g. find? In the CVS version of rsync, you could specify a pre-xfer exec command

Re: Dynamically determined include/exclude list.

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Wayne Davison on 2005/11/10 at 12:09 -0800] In the CVS version of rsync, you could specify a pre-xfer exec command that could run anything you like (such as find). Does this then write the output of, say, find to a file which is picked up later (during the transfer) by

Re: Question about include/exclude rules

2005-06-30 Thread Wayne Davison
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

Re: include/exclude - how to transfer /etc and /home/users from /?

2005-06-28 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I just spent another hour reading the manual and trying to figure it out, but I can't make it. Did you also read the email I pointed you at? Using the --files-from option that it recommended would have been the easiest

Question about include/exclude rules

2005-06-28 Thread l . corbo
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

include/exclude - how to transfer /etc and /home/users from /?

2005-06-27 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ \ /home/samba/linuxbackup/latest/CON/ Unfortunately, it copies only /etc, it doesn't touch /home/samba/... directories I specified. What am I doing wrong? I spent an hour looking through include/exclude problems on this list, but I still can't figure out how can I

Re: include/exclude - how to transfer /etc and /home/users from /?

2005-06-27 Thread Wayne Davison
-from and it is usually much easier than trying to get the include/exclude rules right. Some examples of both the include/exclude syntax and the --files-from syntax are in this recent email on the subject: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-June/012846.html ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe

Re: include/exclude - how to transfer /etc and /home/users from /?

2005-06-27 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
descent. Or just use --files-from and it is usually much easier than trying to get the include/exclude rules right. Some examples of both the include/exclude syntax and the --files-from syntax are in this recent email on the subject: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-June/012846.html

Re: include/exclude client/server precedence

2005-03-15 Thread C. P.
ok, wayne: thank you a lot, next question in another thread now im using: include = [oO][uU][tT][lL][oO][oO][kK].[pP][sS][tT] [aA][lL][mM][aA][cC][eE][nN].[pP][sS][tT] exclude = *.[pP][iI][fF] *.[iI][sS][oO] *.[mM][oO][vV] *.[mM][pP][33] *.[wW][aA][vV] *.[eE][xX][eE] *.[dD][lL][lL]

include/exclude client/server precedence

2005-03-11 Thread C. P.
Hello list: Im a new user, poorly skilled programmer and dont understand the precedences of rules. I understand that: module options override global options but i cant find the relationship between client options and server options. What i want is to: #rsync.conf [module] include = outlook.pst

Re: include/exclude client/server precedence

2005-03-11 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:37:07AM -0300, C. P. wrote: #rsync.conf [module] include = outlook.pst exclude = *.pst *.exe *.com *.mp3 etc... but as i have experienced, these rules only apply if are repeated as client options They apply to the server, but not in the same way that client

Re: include/exclude client/server precedence

2005-03-11 Thread C. P.
Wayne: This is mentioned in the rsyncd.conf (especiallly in a more modern release). The purpose of these options for the daemon is to completely hide files so that they can't be downloaded from the server, and to this exactly what i want: prevent those files from uploaded to the server (in a

Re: include/exclude client/server precedence

2005-03-11 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:58:25PM -0300, C. P. wrote: include = outlook.pst, exclude = *.pif *.iso *.mov *.mp3 *.wav *.exe *.dll *.pst *.com *.bat *.mpg As long as your server is 2.6.3 or newer, that will prevent any of those file extensions from being uploaded to the server. You'll see

[Bug 2240] Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2005-02-25 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2240 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-25 10:05 --- I considered the short-circuit operators (-! and +!) for filter commands, but I am not convinced of their utility. Do you have an example of a real-life situation that

[Bug 2240] Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2005-02-25 Thread samba-bugs
filter/include/exclude file to be parsed in a last-match-wins format. The file must contain this line (on its own): [last-match] This causes all the following rules to be reversed as they are read in, making them behave in a last-match manner. This shouldn't cause a problem in an include/exclude

[Bug 2240] Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2005-01-15 Thread samba-bugs
) on sets where the used operators are union (+) and difference (-) [not intersection!]. Here the expression cannot be just re-grouped to right-association without changing the resulting set. The same for the rules in the include/exclude lists. So, while in the first match approach all rules are more

[Bug 2240] Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2005-01-15 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2240 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-01-15 14:47 --- Ops, yes, you're right. Sorry, my fault in assuming the whole time that we want to use the usual out to in way of describing the include/exclude list. Certainly a wrong

[Bug 2240] Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2005-01-13 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2240 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-01-13 07:48 --- Created an attachment (id=887) -- (https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=887action=view) rsync.patch.lastmatch -- Configure bugmail:

[Bug 2240] New: Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2005-01-13 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2240 Summary: Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude Product: rsync Version: 2.6.3 Platform: All URL: http://cvs.openpkg.org/getfile/openpkg

[Bug 2240] Add last-match/short-circuit processing of include/exclude

2005-01-13 Thread samba-bugs
that it would be a good idea to make the code escape all names that start with + or - (e.g. prefix + or - , as appropriate). This would allow the adding of any non-space suffixes to the initial + or - to change their meaning without adding any new incompatibilities in the syntax of the include/exclude

Re: Stuck with include/exclude options

2005-01-10 Thread Wayne Davison
only deletes inside directories that it sends, so you'll need to send the whole .../C/ dir if you want rsync to delete subdirs inside it. If you only want to transfer some of the dirs inside .../C/, you'll need to use the --include/--exclude syntax to limit which directories on the source side get

Re: Stuck with include/exclude options

2005-01-10 Thread David E. Meier
that it sends, so you'll need to send the whole .../C/ dir if you want rsync to delete subdirs inside it. If you only want to transfer some of the dirs inside .../C/, you'll need to use the --include/--exclude syntax to limit which directories on the source side get transferred. Like

Re: Stuck with include/exclude options

2005-01-10 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:28:54PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote: However, this leads me to the conclusion I need to run rsync separatly for any of the drives, right? It all depends on how the souce and destination directories match up. If the destination has a dir named C and D (in the same

Stuck with include/exclude options

2005-01-07 Thread David E. Meier
Hello list, I try to keep a list of directories/files on windows in sync with the ones on a remote machine. Basically syncing works fine, however I am stuck/confused with the various possiblities using include/exclude options. Your help is very much appreciated. Here's the scenario: Local source

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