On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:51:18AM -0700, Brashers, Bart -- MFG, Inc. wrote: > I'm a relative newbie to rsync, I use it to backup (mirror) a bunch of > Windows boxes. I mount them using samba (to avoid having to install the > cygwin version on each box) then run (using rsync 2.5.2 run from crontab) > > rsync -vuaz --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/root/bin/rsync.exclude \ > --modify-window=2 /mnt/pc/machine/share /backup/machine/share > > It works like a charm, except for some excludes that won't work -- rsync > still copies the files. Here's my exclude file: > > [~/bin]% ls rsync.exclude > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Mar 1 09:34 rsync.exclude > [~/bin]% cat rsync.exclude > /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music > System Volume Information/ > RECYCLER > ffastun* > Program Files/ > Temporary Internet Files/ > msdownld.tmp/ > > It's the first line that doesn't work. I've tried all possible combinations > of leading and trailing slashes, stars, etc, found in the man page: > > /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music > /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music/ > /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music/* > /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music/** > mnt/pc/machine/D/Music > mnt/pc/machine/D/Music/ > mnt/pc/machine/D/Music/* > mnt/pc/machine/D/Music/** > > The rest (even those with dreaded spaces in the names) work. But it still > keeps copying and updating this guy's music files (lots of WAVs).
I don't understand why those paths are getting copied at all; they're not under /mnt/pc/machine/share. Or are you using the word "share" as a generic name meaning something like "C" and "D" and you're copying them both? On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:10:32AM -0800, Mike Rubel wrote: > > Bart Brashers wrote: > > ... I mount them using samba (to avoid having to install the > > cygwin version on each box) then run (using rsync 2.5.2 run from crontab) > > > > rsync -vuaz --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/root/bin/rsync.exclude \ > > --modify-window=2 /mnt/pc/machine/share /backup/machine/share > > > > It works like a charm, except for some excludes that won't work -- rsync > > still copies the files. Here's my exclude file: > > > /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music > ... > > Hi Bart, > I'm not an expert with rsync, so someone please correct me if I've got > this wrong, but I think the way to exclude /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music would > be like this: > > /Music/ > > Otherwise it's looking to exclude: > > /mnt/pc/machine/share/mnt/pc/machine/D/Music, > > which of course doesn't exist. > > Mike Assuming Bart is actually specifying /mnt/pc/machine/D as the source, Mike's answer is almost right. The paths will start with "D" since that's the basename of the source and the source doesn't end with a trailing slash. If I were Bart, I'd add the trailing slash so the paths can start with Music. - Dave Dykstra -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
