rsync - Jan 2005 - Stuck with include/exclude options

Hello list,

I try to keep a list of directories/files on windows in sync with the ones
on a remote machine. Basically syncing works fine, however I am
stuck/confused with the various possiblities using include/exclude
options. Your help is very much appreciated. Here's the scenario:

Local source dir: /cygdrive (seems to be required or else the cygwin-HOME
is set)
Remote destination dir: ~/data

Local file tree to be synced, that may vary each time rsync is run:

C:\test1\a1\
         b1\
         c1\
C:\test2\a2\
         b2\

So I created a file "files.txt" containing:

C/test1
C/test2

And then I call rsync:

$ rsync -avvr --temp-dir=temp --delete -e ssh --stats
--files-from=files.inc /cygdrive storage@192.168.2.111:data

This copies all the directories just fine to the remote machine. However,
when I run rsync wiht a different file tree to be synced, say:

C:\test1\a1\
         b1\
         c1\
C:\test3\a3\
         b3\

The directory "~data/C/test2" does not get deleted on the remote side.
How
can I achieve this? How do I have to set the options so that any
directory/file on the remote side that is not explicitly listed as include
path gets deleted?

Thanks VERY much for any help on this! Dave.

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:25:14PM +0100, David E. Meier
wrote:
> The directory "~data/C/test2" does not get deleted on the remote
side.
Which is a very good thing, because you didn't tell it to transfer
test2, and rsync does not go around deleting things outside the
transferred file tree.

Rsync only deletes inside directories that it sends, so you'll need to
send the whole .../C/ dir if you want rsync to delete subdirs inside it.
If you only want to transfer some of the dirs inside .../C/, you'll need
to use the --include/--exclude syntax to limit which directories on the
source side get transferred.  Like this:

$ rsync -avvr --temp-dir=temp --delete -e ssh --stats
  --include=/test1/ --include=/test3/ --exclude=/*
  /cygdrive/C/ storage@192.168.2.111:data

You can put the include/exclude statements into a file, like this:

+ /test1/
+ /test2/
- /*

And then use --include-from=FILE instead of the separate
--include/--exclude options.

..wayne..