Once again I find myself in the throws of a major pain in the butt
figuring out how to exclude the files under directories or at least
the directories and the files.
Apparently I don't use rsync in enough different circumstance for this
to become routine.
Every single time I want to use rsync for anytning more complex than
the simplest on disk transfers. I land smack dab in a large hair
pulling session about exclude rules.
Currently trying to download the debian distro for my architecture.
The setup under directory `woody/main/' looks like:
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2000/12/18 09:40:43 .
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2000/01/16 04:17:17 binary-all
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2001/04/04 12:20:08 binary-alpha
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2001/04/04 12:20:53 binary-arm
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2001/04/04 12:22:42 binary-i386
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2001/04/04 12:24:09 binary-m68k
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2001/04/04 12:25:32 binary-powerpc
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2001/04/04 12:26:46 binary-sparc
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2000/01/16 04:28:31 disks-alpha
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2000/02/07 05:19:17 disks-i386
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2000/03/10 12:03:13 disks-m68k
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2000/03/10 12:03:44 disks-powerpc
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2000/01/16 04:20:23 disks-sparc
drwxrwxr-x 4096 2001/04/04 12:27:41 source
I want only binary-all/ binary-i386/ and disks-i386
My command line looks like:
rsync -navvz --exclude-from=rsync_woody_exclude
rsync://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/ .
I'm trying for a dryrun to see how my exclude rules work
cat rsync_woody_exclude
binary-alpha/*
binary-arm/*
binary-m68k/*
binary-powerpc/*
binary-spark/*
disks-alpha/*
disks-m68k/*
disks-powerpc/*
disks-sparc/*
source/*
But still every damn file on the server turns up in the output,
including every thing under the ones supposedly excluded.
Also trying with a leading forward slash -- same results.
The man page says, well .... point blank really, that this will work.
o if the pattern ends with a / then it will only
match a directory, not a file, link or device.
o if the pattern contains a wildcard character from
the set *?[ then expression matching is applied
using the shell filename matching rules. Otherwise
a simple string match is used.
What make this such a gripe is that every single time, a new setup has
to be jerked with.
That -n flag should allow me to find out what is going to happen.
This is not a place where you want to have it wrong. It would involve
thousands of files.
