rsync - Apr 2007 - Weird exclude info

I have a rsync script which connects to a remote machine and pulls a
file list back to backup. It also parses a remote config file and
creates a local exclude list to use when doing the backup. I wont bore
you with the script details but im having a weird issue with exclude.

If there are files to be excluded they are put into a file like this :-

$ cat tmp/lavatest.exclude
/path/to/exclude
/export/home/user/test/dontgetme

Now when the rsync runs i use the following options (ignore the variables):-

rsync -exclude-from=/path/tmp/lavatesting.exclude  -PaRzq --delete
--delete-excluded --copy-unsafe-links --numeric-ids -e "${SSH}"
root@${remote_get_host}:${RLIST} ${remote_get_localdir} >>
${remote_errorlog} 2>> ${remote_errorlog}

The file list im trying to backup just for this e.g is
/export/home/user/test/  which contains a file called 'getme' and one
called 'dontgetme'

I assumed the dontgetme should be excluded.

I get the following in the log i create -

        Starting get of [/etc/inet/hosts]

rsync: -exclude-from=/path/tmp/lavatesting.exclude: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(994)

        Starting get of [/export/home/user/test]

rsync: -exclude-from=/path/tmp/lavatesting.exclude: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(994)


Any ideas?

Yep. It's confirmed im an idiot.

Its --exclude-from  not -exclude-from.

All working wonderfully now

Cheers


Dave Markham wrote:
> I have a rsync script which connects to a remote machine and pulls a
> file list back to backup. It also parses a remote config file and
> creates a local exclude list to use when doing the backup. I wont bore
> you with the script details but im having a weird issue with exclude.
>
> If there are files to be excluded they are put into a file like this :-
>
> $ cat tmp/lavatest.exclude
> /path/to/exclude
> /export/home/user/test/dontgetme
>
> Now when the rsync runs i use the following options (ignore the
variables):-
>
> rsync -exclude-from=/path/tmp/lavatesting.exclude  -PaRzq --delete
> --delete-excluded --copy-unsafe-links --numeric-ids -e "${SSH}"
> root@${remote_get_host}:${RLIST} ${remote_get_localdir} >>
> ${remote_errorlog} 2>> ${remote_errorlog}
>
> The file list im trying to backup just for this e.g is
> /export/home/user/test/  which contains a file called 'getme' and
one
> called 'dontgetme'
>
> I assumed the dontgetme should be excluded.
>
> I get the following in the log i create -
>
>         Starting get of [/etc/inet/hosts]
>
> rsync: -exclude-from=/path/tmp/lavatesting.exclude: unknown option
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(994)
>
>         Starting get of [/export/home/user/test]
>
> rsync: -exclude-from=/path/tmp/lavatesting.exclude: unknown option
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(994)
>
>
> Any ideas?
>