rsync - Jul 2005 - filter problem

Hello,

I want to copy some stuff via rsync from one host to another and delete
the deleted files afterwards (--delete-after).

I have one folder, that I don't want to get deleted though.

For that I used the filter -f 'P /dir/*'
but it seems that it only works for /dir/* and not /dir/bla/*

Do I have to write

-f 'P /dir/*' -f 'P /dir/*/*/' -f 'P /dir/*/*/*' ...

in order to get it to work, or is there a smarter way? :)


Regards,
Mario.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:43:41PM +0200, Mario D_ring
wrote:
> For that I used the filter -f 'P /dir/*'
> but it seems that it only works for /dir/* and not /dir/bla/*
If you started the transfer in "/", protecting /dir/* will prevent any
recursion in that part of the hierarchy.  If you have multiple sources,
that protection will not match if the source is down somewhere inside
the /dir/ hierarchy.  You could specify something like this:

    -f 'P/ /dir/**'

That uses the "/" option to protect to tell rsync that you're
specifying
an absolute path instead of one that is relative to the source dir.
Then, the "**" matches anything no matter how deep (as opposed to
"*",
which does not match a slash).

..wayne..