On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:19:42PM -0400, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
There is no mention of the concept of transfer rule in the rsync
man page. I offer some proposed man page wording changes, below.
Thanks. I have committed some manpage changes that clarify this
unexpected behavior. At some point
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:19:41PM -0400, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:51:35AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
This is because --min-size is a transfer rule, not an exclude rule.
There is no mention of the concept of transfer rule in the rsync
man page.
There is another
On Thu 23 Apr 2009, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
In the man page it says in one place tells the receiving rsync to get
rid of empty directories from the file-list and in another place it says
prune empty directory chains from file-list. The latter sounds like it
operates on the source list, not on
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:23:06AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
I don't think the intention is to actually delete empty directories at
the receiving end; only to prevent them being created.
I have not yet found out how to prevent empty directories from being
created when using --max-size or
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:20:37AM -0400, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
I want to use --min-size to copy just large files (and their necessary
parent directories), but everything I've tried copies *all* the source
directories, and creates them empty on the destination even if they
don't have any big
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:51:35AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
This is because --min-size is a transfer rule, not an exclude rule.
There is no mention of the concept of transfer rule in the rsync
man page. I offer some proposed man page wording changes, below.
The man page says This option
$ rsync -ai --min-size 10M --prune-empty-dirs /home/idallen/test /tmp/foo
Have you tried --no-dirs?
Why should I need it? I've explicitly told the receiving side don't
create empty directories and that should be sufficient. I shouldn't
need any other options. (In any case, I just tried
I want to use --min-size to copy just large files (and their necessary
parent directories), but everything I've tried copies *all* the source
directories, and creates them empty on the destination even if they
don't have any big files in them. I only want the minimal directory
hierarchies that
