rsync - Mar 2017 - How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?

Considering you cant INCLUDE a directory that is a symlink... which would
be really handy right now for me to resolve a mapping of 103 ->
meaningful_name
for backups, instead im resorting to temporary bind mounts of 103 onto 
meaningful_name, and when the bind mount isnt there, the --del is emptying
meaningful_name accidentally at times.

I think both situations could benefit from a --resolve-cmd-line-links switch
to resolve COMMAND LINE-SUPPLIED symlinks.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/153262/get-rsync-to-dereference-symlinked-dirs-presented-on-cmdline-like-find-h

/kc


On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 07:41:10AM -0500, Steve Dondley said:
  >A thousand greetings,
  >
  >I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local machine that
has
  >a symbolic link to a directory I don't want to download. I have an
  >"exclude" option to exclude the symlink which works fine.
However, if I add
  >a --copy-links option to the command, it appears to override my
"exclude"
  >directive and the contents of the symlinked directory gets downloaded
  >anyway.
  >
  >I suspect I need some kind of --filter option. I read the documentation
(or
  >at least tried do) regarding the --filter option but a mortal, casual user
  >like me could not make heads or tails of it.
  >
  >Thanks.

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I'm not sure if this is directed at me or not. But should I take it to mean
that what I want to accomplish is not possible using normal commands?

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Ken Chase <rsync-list-m829 at sizone.org>
wrote:
> Considering you cant INCLUDE a directory that is a symlink... which would
> be really handy right now for me to resolve a mapping of 103 ->
> meaningful_name
> for backups, instead im resorting to temporary bind mounts of 103 onto
> meaningful_name, and when the bind mount isnt there, the --del is emptying
> meaningful_name accidentally at times.
>
> I think both situations could benefit from a --resolve-cmd-line-links
> switch
> to resolve COMMAND LINE-SUPPLIED symlinks.
>
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/153262/get-rsync-to-
> dereference-symlinked-dirs-presented-on-cmdline-like-find-h
>
> /kc
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 07:41:10AM -0500, Steve Dondley said:
>   >A thousand greetings,
>   >
>   >I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local machine
that
> has
>   >a symbolic link to a directory I don't want to download. I have
an
>   >"exclude" option to exclude the symlink which works fine.
However, if I
> add
>   >a --copy-links option to the command, it appears to override my
> "exclude"
>   >directive and the contents of the symlinked directory gets downloaded
>   >anyway.
>   >
>   >I suspect I need some kind of --filter option. I read the
documentation
> (or
>   >at least tried do) regarding the --filter option but a mortal, casual
> user
>   >like me could not make heads or tails of it.
>   >
>   >Thanks.
>
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On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Ken Chase <rsync-list-m829 at sizone.org>
wrote:
> I think both situations could benefit from a --resolve-cmd-line-links
> switch to resolve COMMAND LINE-SUPPLIED symlinks.
>
You can specify symlinks in a --relative path with a trailing slash-dot
(and use /./ infix notation to trim paths). For example:

rsync -aivR /some/path/./symlink/. /dest/

That will create /dest/symlink/ and its contents.

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