> > 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?
Yes, sorry, an inconsistency on my part! The "s" in samba/smb stands for
share. Replace "D" with "share" and my explanation is consistent.
> > 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.
>
> 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.
I added the trailing slash, re-wrote my script (called by crontab) to
use --exclude-from=exclude.$machine for each $machine, and created the 20 or
so exclude.* files (almost all identical) for the windows boxes. I can now
exclude on a per-machine basis, each relative to /mnt/pc/$machine/$share/.
It works!
>From the man page:
"when used with -r (which is implied by -a),
every subcomponent of every path is visited from top down,
so include/exclude patterns get applied recursively to
each subcomponent."
"...base of the tree."
I guess I didn't make the connection from these phrases that the base of the
tree is not the beginning of a path
(/mnt/pc/machine/share/blah/blah/blah.txt), or that the "path" here is
relative to the source path in the rsync command.
Thanks for your help,
Bart
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