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

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.

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Hmmm,  according to my interpretation of the man page (I am on 3.1.1)
that is supposed to work however when I test using the "-/
/etc/passwd" example the / seems to have the same effect as commenting
the line.  I get /etc/passwd copied whether the source is / or /etc.

Am I completely misunderstanding what the man page is telling me this
syntax does?

On 04/13/2015 12:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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.
> 
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Hi,

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:59:07 -0400 Kevin Korb wrote:
> Hmmm,  according to my interpretation of the man page (I am on 3.1.1)
> that is supposed to work however when I test using the "-/
> /etc/passwd" example the / seems to have the same effect as commenting
> the line.  I get /etc/passwd copied whether the source is / or /etc.
I guess that this -/ syntax is not usable with --exclude, but only
with --filter.

Try thus to modify your exclude file to:

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

an call rsync ... --filter='merge YOUR_FILE' 

Francis