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Hi, Linux-Ubuntu here. English is not my first language. The man rsync is difficult to understand. I want to backup some folders recursively and some files, see [1] in my /home dir to an external USB HD (Ext4). I want to use a text file for the purpose. [1] /home/user/Documents /home/user/Software /home/user/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db

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

I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that start with a dot, IOW hidden files. But using --exclude '.*' does funny things with directories (or at least I think it does). Is there a recognised correct way to do this? I thought --exclude '.???*' would avoid the directory issue by only excluding any dot file(dir) with a name longer than 2 characters. Not tried it yet, but would

I investigated the rsync code and found the reason why. For every file in the source, it searches the entire filter-list looking to see if that filename is on the exclude/include list. Most aren't, so it compares (350K - 72K) * 72K names (the non-listed files) plus (72K * 72K/2) names (the ones that are listed), for a total of about 22,608,000,000 strcmp's. That's 22 BILLION

Hello List, i have got a large File-List which looks like this: ...snip... 165/165950*.jpg 166/166072*.jpg ...snap.... Now i would like to transfer only those file from that list. The rsync command: rsync -avz -F --files-from=/tmp/synclist-small.txt /mnt/ /data/ does not seem to work due to that wildcard. The command: rsync -avz -F --include-from=/tmp/synclist-small.txt /mnt/ /data/ syncs

Hi, I am using a computer to back up files from another computer automatically. I want to exclude large files from backing up. How can I do that? Thank you. Wensheng Jiang

Hi, I want to rsync a large number of files from A to B, but I need to exclude certain files. Specifically, A has /test/runs/{1,2,3,...,2500}, i.e., about 2500 directories here. However, I only want to transfer the directories that are numbered 2000 or higher, i.e., I want to exclude /test/runs/{1,2,3,...,1999}, so I tried this: rsync --include='/test/runs/***' \

Kudos all that maintain this awesome and enduring piece of software. Awesome job, many thanks. I’ve come across a use case that would greatly benefit form a —delete-older-than <secs> argument. This would behave the same as —delete only sparing files dest that have a creating time less than <secs> ago. How hard would this be to implement? Where would I start ? TIA, Francois

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't understand what is wrong with rm either. But if you must have an empty directory is there a tmpfs where you can make one? Is there already an empty one like /var/empty? On 04/16/2015 10:13 AM, Ken Chase wrote: > Wow, it took me a few seconds to figure out what you were trying to > do. > > What's wrong with rm? >

Hi, I tried to backup my gentoobox using rsync into a NTFS External Drive Rsync Failed And now there is no space lesft on my root directory "/" and kcore file size is 128 TiB and my External NTFS HDD makes scary sounds (Like it is working hardly) even when its not mounted rsync created some files/directories that i cant remove them on my External HDD using "rm -rf" , Please

Hi, I am getting "rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6]" now frequently but while using rsync version 2.6, I used to get it rarely. Any idea would be helpful on why rsync 3.0.6 is throwing this warning frequently. Jignesh. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

Hello - I just finished doing a search of the archives and couldn't seem to get this answered. Example, I have a root directory containing the following directories: /Test1 /Test2 /Test3 I want to rsync only /Test2 and all subdirs under. So my include-from file looks like: + Test2/* - /* This doesn't work as nothing is synced, and if I do a -vv it tells me that nothing is being

Hi - is "rsync --version" reporting the wrong version number, or am I to stupid to properly install rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac? Here is what I did: download and extract rsync-3-0-5 (btw: why is there an extra patches folder?) in Terminal I ran: ./configure, make, sudo make install There was no error message, and the old /usr/local/bin/rsync was replaced. When I now issue "rsync

Here is part of my backup script: nice -n 15 rsync -avl --exclude=".*" \ --include-from="/home/bob/backup_includes" \ "$fromdir" "$todir" Here is the content of /home/bob/backup_includes /home/bob/.vimrc /home/bob/.gitconfig My problem is that neither the .vimrc nor .gitconfig are copied to the backup directory. I have read the man page about

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I am trying to backup my /home directory. A friend helped me with this script: #!/bin/sh #backup friday #"Spinning up backup drive and mounting it .." cd / mount /mnt/hd2 #"Starting backup procedures" rsync -avx --exclude="/home/gary/.thumbnails/" --exclude="/home/gary/tmp/" --delete --ignore-errors /home/gary /mnt/hd2/2010 umount /mnt/hd2 #END It backs

hi guys, we are using rsycn without problem but today after some problems in one of the servers, the dc tech did find the rsync is effecting in the switch where they have the server connected broadcasting all the ports in the switch at the dc????? This is what the dc tech said: "It appears that your server is broadcasting to every port on the switch that you are connected to" Any

I've decided to give hosting it on github a try, especially since there's been a lot of nice contributions lately. Hopefully this will make it easier for both the people sending patches as well as for me to snag the changes. I'll continue to push changes to the samba git as well. Here's the new repo: https://github.com/WayneD/rsync Feel free to open issues there, but we

Hi Kevin, Thank you very much. I changed my user in the remote machine (su). Then, by trying again with rsync but with no modification in the source folder, I see that file ownership continues the same. Would be possible for rsync to change the ownership in this case (I am not root) ? Thanks, Regards,CJ Em Quinta-feira, 10 de Setembro de 2015 20:01, Kevin Korb <kmk at

Hello, I am looking into possibilities of porting RSync for windows. Does anybody have an idea that which libraries and dependencies RSync uses which can not be compiled on windows (so thats why we use cygwin) Regards Hasanat Kazmi -- Hasanatkazmi@gmail.com "I hate Capitalism,so naturally I love Open Source" -- Hasanat Kazmi +923464362473 -------------- next part -------------- HTML