rsync option

Dave Dykstra
Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:22:01 -0000

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.  It snuck in after I was the main rsync
maintainer.

- Dave

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:20:45PM -0700, tim.conway@philips.com
wrote:
> Approximated petitioner:
> Perhaps this will help.
>
> SunOS 5.7           Last change: 25 Jan 2002                    5
>
> User Commands                                            rsync(1)
>
>       -C, --cvs-exclude           auto ignore files in the same way CVS
> does
>           --existing              only update files that already exist
>           --ignore-existing       ignore files that already exist on the
> receiving side
>
> Alternately, you could just
> rsync -options file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 serverB:/destinationpath
> , but if you want the generic case of syncing only already-existing items,
> that "--existing" option looks like your boy.
>
> Tim Conway
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>
>
> "Paco Martinez" <pmartinez@heraldo.es>
> Sent by: rsync-admin@lists.samba.org
> 06/07/2002 01:14 AM
>
>
>         To:     <rsync@lists.samba.org>
>         cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
>         Subject:        rsync option
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>
> Estimated gurus.
>
> I have a server A with 5 files, and I make a rsync to other server B of
> these 5 files.
>
> Imagine that in server A number of files are increasing, and server B are
> not increasing but I just like to make rsync of these 5 files from A to B,
> none file else.
>
> Is there any option in rsync to "copy" or "send" files
fron server A to
> server B, owing to replicate only files that are in server B ??
>
> Thank you !!!