rsync - Aug 2006 - files-from and filter from one file?

Hi,

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but I have tried millions of
combinations of settings.

Is it possible to somehow combine --files-from and --filter into one file,
so that I can use one here-document?

Using the + directive in --filter seems to always give me slightly different
results.

What I do now is without --files-from, but it means the directory tree is
not recreated on the backup server. It just results in /backup/etc
/backup/bin and /backup/sbin, which is not what I need.

 rsync
  -a -e ssh --compress --numeric-ids --modify-window=1--timeout=600 --fuzzy
  -v --link-dest="/backup/client1/linux/2006-08-24 11.31.40"
--filter='. -'

  root@client1:'
    /etc
    /usr/local/bin
    /usr/local/sbin
  '
  '/backup/client1/linux/2006-08-24 18.29.05' << EOF
. /etc/backup.d/filters/default
. /etc/backup.d/filters/default.linux
- mrtg
- adjtime
- random_seed
EOF

What I want is the effect that --files-from gives in that I can simply copy
client1:/ to /backup/ and then only include /etc /usr/local/bin and
/usr/local/sbin. Having to use files-from and filter seperately would force
me to use a temporary file instead of neatly packed into one command line
with a here-document.

Sounds like an easy thing to do with a + filter, but I haven't figured it
out yet.

Thanks

Jannes Faber
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On 8/24/06, Jannes Faber <j.faber@elevate.nl>
wrote:
> Is it possible to somehow combine --files-from and --filter into one file,
> so that I can use one here-document?
In bash you can use multiple here-documents, like this:

rsync <blah> --filter='. -'  <<ENDFILTERS
--files-from=/dev/fd/3 3<<ENDFILES
+ foo
- bar
ENDFILTERS
file1
path/to/file2
ENDFILES

Does that solve the problem?

Matt

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:45:19PM +0200, Jannes Faber
wrote:
> Is it possible to somehow combine --files-from and --filter into one file,
> so that I can use one here-document?
No, but as long as you don't have a huge number of --files-from lines,
you can just turn them into command-line args and get the same effect.
For instance, this command, given an input of "foo/one" and
"bar/two":

  rsync -av --files-from=list.txt /src /dest

is entirely the same as this command (note absense of -r and presence
of -R, and use of embedded /./ dir):

  rsync -RlptgoDv /src/./foo/one /src/./bar/two /dest

The use of /./ requires a very recent rsync (at least 2.6.7).  Older
rsync versions require a chdir instead, perhaps in a sub-shell:

  (cd /src && rsync -RlptgoDv foo/one bar/two /dest)

..wayne..