On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:57:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I read through the archives, and have gotten alot of leads, but still
> have not figured out the exact combination for what I am trying to do.
>
> I am copying individual machine's apache logs to a single machine to
> run log analysis on them. basically, what I have tried:
>
> rsync -ra -v --include "/*/2001/05/07/access.log" \
> --exclude "*" \
> --delete-excluded \
> web1::logs /var/tmp/.LogCache/web1
>
> The tree of the log file is broken in to
>
> virtualhostname/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/access.log
>
> My thinking here is that if I run this in a cron job, I will maintain
> two days of raw log data on the single machine that is doing the
> processing. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
You need to explicitly include each of the parent directories of the
file you want to include, otherwise the --exclude '*' will prevent
rsync from ever looking down into the subdirectories.
- Dave Dykstra
