Thanks! That seems to do the job. On Monday 21 March 2005 05:05 pm, John Van Essen wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Lars Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have looked on the mailing lists and through rsync documentation but those > > still haven't solved my problem. I may be calling rsync incorrectly but the > > problem I have is that the exclude file seems to be ignored. My final goal is > > to replicate an entire host, excluding some files that contain specific IP, > > hostname configuration things. I'm trying to start small by mirroring a > > directory first and then later I will just specify "/". > > <snip> > > > Here is the command line I'm using. > > > > rsync -avv -n --delete --exclude-from=sys_dont_replicate.list -e ssh > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ /etc > > Your exclude-from file is set up for a root-level rsync. But you are > testing from top-level of /etc, which means all your exclude paths are > rooted at /etc/, not at /. That's why they don't match (e.g. rsync is > testing for /etc/etc/lilo.conf instead of /etc/lilo.conf). > > The easiest 'fix' for temporary testing is to use the root directory like > you will be doing later, include /etc, and exclude other top-level dirs: > > rsync -avv -n --delete --include=/etc --exclude=/* --exclude-from=sys_dont_replicate.list > -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ / > > Then just remove the extra --include and --exclude when you are ready to > test the whole hierarchy. > -- > John Van Essen Univ of Minn. Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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