rsync - Apr 2015 - How to discern when like dir names exist in 2 places

with these rsync  rsync [...] /var/ /dir/
                  rsync [...] /etc/ /dir2/
                  
And exclude file: excl

  /apache2/*

That will exclude both /var/apache2/*
and                    /etc/apache2/*

How can I tell rsync I want /var/apache2 excluded, but not /etc/apache2?
I mean short of using separate excl files for each run
Using something like the start of an absolute name:
  `/etc/apache2/*'

Allows both /etc/apache2
and         /var/apache2  to be collected

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Put this line in your file:
- -/ /var/apache2/*

On 04/13/2015 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 
> with these rsync  rsync [...] /var/ /dir/ rsync [...] /etc/ /dir2/
> 
> And exclude file: excl
> 
> /apache2/*
> 
> That will exclude both /var/apache2/* and
> /etc/apache2/*
> 
> How can I tell rsync I want /var/apache2 excluded, but not
> /etc/apache2? I mean short of using separate excl files for each
> run Using something like the start of an absolute name: 
> `/etc/apache2/*'
> 
> Allows both /etc/apache2 and         /var/apache2  to be collected
> 
> 
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Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> writes:
> -/ /var/apache2/*
Thanks for the input, but unless I'm doing something else screwy, that
does not appear to work here.

I put your line verbatim into my exlcude file (near the top)

  /pkg/*
  /sadm/*
  /cache/*
  /opt/csw/cache/*
  -/ /var/apache2/*
  /tmp/*
-------       -------       ---=---       -------       -------

My actual task here is an rsnapshot run that collects files

   Here      /var/
   and here  /etc/
   (a few other places as well as well)

But as you probably know its really a pair of rsync runs that
occur.

To reiterate, my goal was to collect files at `/etc/apache2/'
but not at `/var/apache2'

(These are just typical of what I want to do in several places.)


Adding that line verbatim did not have the effect I'm after.