rsync - Jan 2002 - Files getting excluded.. don't understand why?

I am trying to use rsync along with find to quickly copy changes to mirrors 
for some web sites. The basic idea is:

1 look for files newer than X >> export-file
2 rsync --include-from=export-file remote-server:/remote-path

Simple enough. Unfortunately, I can't get this to work. Step 1 works well 
enough. However, when I use rsync it appears that rsync is excluding the 
files I added via export-file. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here
is
the command I am using:

rsync -vvv -e ssh -r --include-from=$TOCOPY localhost:/home/dpuryear/testdir2

Notice I'm debugging rsync, so I have it running in verbose mode on some 
test directories. The full script is below:

#!/bin/sh

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
LOCKFILE=/home/dpuryear/sync_www.lock
LASTRUN=/home/dpuryear/sync_www.lastrun
TOCOPY=/home/dpuryear/tocopy
DIRLIST="/home/dpuryear/testdir"
WWWLIST=localhost

if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
         exit
else
         touch $LOCKFILE
fi

# create copy list
rm -f $TOCOPY
for dir in $DIRLIST; do
         cd $dir

         # find files newer than $LASTRUN
         if [ -f $LASTRUN ]; then
                 find ./ \! -regex '\./logs.*' -cnewer $LASTRUN -print
>
$TOCOPY
         else
                 find ./ \! -regex '\./logs.*' -print > $TOCOPY
         fi

         # update $LASTRUN
         touch $LASTRUN

         # grab any files added VERY recently
         find ./ \! -regex '\./logs.*' -cnewer $LASTRUN -print >>
$TOCOPY

         rsync -vvv -e ssh -r --include-from=$TOCOPY 
localhost:/home/dpuryear/testdir2
done

rm -f $LOCKFILE
rm -f $LASTRUN

Regards, Dustin
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Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:47:41AM -0600, Dustin Puryear
wrote:
> I am trying to use rsync along with find to quickly copy changes to mirrors
> for some web sites. The basic idea is:
> 
> 1 look for files newer than X >> export-file
> 2 rsync --include-from=export-file remote-server:/remote-path
> 
> Simple enough. Unfortunately, I can't get this to work. Step 1 works
well
> enough. However, when I use rsync it appears that rsync is excluding the 
> files I added via export-file. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Here is
> the command I am using:
> 
> rsync -vvv -e ssh -r --include-from=$TOCOPY
localhost:/home/dpuryear/testdir2

Problem 1: you need to specify both source and destination directories.

Problem 2: by default all files are included, so adding a --include-from
    doesn't do anything unless you also finish it with an --exclude
'*'.

Problem 3: doing an --exclude '*' will also exclude parent directories
so
    you will need to explicitly include all parent directories.  I'm
    planning on writing an option to rsync called --files-from that will
    permit specifying an explicit list of files and avoid includes and
    excludes but I haven't been able to get to it yet.

Please read the rsync.1 man page section "EXCLUDE PATTERNS" carefully.

- Dave Dykstra