rsync - Apr 2004 - exclude-from and include-from confusion

Learning rsync (love it) and am requesting some help in understanding the
exclude-from/include-from rules. I've been doing some testing and the
results aren't coming out as I expected.

Problem:
I have a directory with several dozen sub directories and would like to
selectively pick a couple dozen directories to remotely copy. The issue is
that there are a large number of directories and I want to keep the conf
file and exclude/include files as simple and efficient as possible. I'm
using /export/home/jetson as my home dir for this test.

My Understanding:
- Only one directory can be listed in the PATH module option.
- Any directory or file listed in the exclude file will NOT be copied.
- Any directory of file listed in the include file WILL be copied no matter
what is in the exclude file.
	(thus allowing me to exclude *.zip files while including davet.zip.)
- I realize I could create additional modules, however, I'd like to avoid
creating a dozen modules, possibly with different exclude/include files.

My Confusion:
Using the exclude and include combo below, I thought I would be able to list
just the directories I want to copy and thus avoid having large and
confusing lists. However, the result is the the testdir/ directory and it's
subdirectories are still ignored. What am I missing? Is my syntax wrong for
the exclude/include files?

Command line:
/usr/local/bin/rsync -av --exclude-from=/davet/rsync.exclude
--include-from=/davet/rsync.include --stats jetson@primey::jetson
/export/home/jetson

Module:
[jetson]
        path = /export/home/jetson/
        read only = yes
        list = yes

Exclude File:
*

Include File:
/export/home/jetson/testdir/*


Thanks,
Dave

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:51:57PM -0400, Dave.Turner@VerizonWireless.com
wrote:
> - Any directory or file listed in the exclude file will NOT be copied.
> - Any directory of file listed in the include file WILL be copied no matter
> what is in the exclude file.
Only if the include comes before the exclude in the list of all includes
and excludes.  If you reverse the order of your --exclude-from and
--include-from options that would give the includes priority over the
excludes.  However, I'd recommend joining both files into a single file
using explicit "+ " and "- " prefixes and switching over to
just one
--exclude-from=combo_file option.  E.g.:

+ /testdir/
+ /testdir/*
- *

(Note the explicit inclusion of the parent directory -- see the man
page's discssion of how patterns are applied recursively.)

Another solution that would work for the simple set of rules you listed
is this:

+ /testdir/
- /*

The two methods differ in how they treat subdirectories in "testdir",
though.

..wayne..

Thanks Wayne! That's doing the trick. I've been playing with
combinations
and am now getting what I expect.

I think I'll be using something close to this for my exclude file to get
what I want.

+ /testdir/*
- /*/

Combining that with different modules will make it a much simpler task.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Davison [mailto:wayned@samba.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:21 PM
To: Dave.Turner@VerizonWireless.com
Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: exclude-from and include-from confusion


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:51:57PM -0400, Dave.Turner@VerizonWireless.com
wrote:
> - Any directory or file listed in the exclude file will NOT be copied.
> - Any directory of file listed in the include file WILL be copied no
matter
> what is in the exclude file.
Only if the include comes before the exclude in the list of all includes
and excludes.  If you reverse the order of your --exclude-from and
--include-from options that would give the includes priority over the
excludes.  However, I'd recommend joining both files into a single file
using explicit "+ " and "- " prefixes and switching over to
just one
--exclude-from=combo_file option.  E.g.:

+ /testdir/
+ /testdir/*
- *

(Note the explicit inclusion of the parent directory -- see the man
page's discssion of how patterns are applied recursively.)

Another solution that would work for the simple set of rules you listed
is this:

+ /testdir/
- /*

The two methods differ in how they treat subdirectories in "testdir",
though.

..wayne..