On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 17:50 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Matt McCutchen wrote: > > I'm surprised that the exclude doesn't work. Could you post your whole > > rsync command line so I can see if anything else might be interfering? > Keep in mind that this is the Win32 ported version (cwRsync) that > I'm using. > > "C:\Program Files\cwRsync\bin\rsync.exe" -arvz --progress --partial \ > --delete --delete-excluded --exclude="Network Trash Folder" \ > --filter=". C:\Program Files\cwRsync\filter.txt" \ > --log-file="C:\Program Files\cwRsync\AbyssI.txt" \ > /cygdrive/f/ /cygdrive/y/ > > I've tried adding it to the command line (see above), and when that > failed, I moved it into the filter.txt file instead: > > C:\Program Files\cwRsync>type filter.txt > - .* > - ICON* > - RECYCLE* > - System Volume Information > - Temporary Items > - TheFindByContentFolder > - TheVolumeSettingsFolder > - Network Trash Folder > - msdownld.tmp > > C:\Program Files\cwRsync> > > I'm not using both at the same time, it's either the command line, > or filter.txt file. Neither seem to work. What rsync is telling me is > that it wants to DELETE the copy that's on the Y: drive (since it > doesn't exist on the F: drive). However, I need it to ignore that > folder all together, don't bother copying, don't bother deleting.
--delete-excluded prevents the --exclude="Network Trash Folder" rule from protecting the "Network Trash Folder" on the destination from deletion; that's the whole point of --delete-excluded. To protect this directory, you'll need to use a rule that explicitly applies to both the sender (s) and the receiver (r): --filter="-sr Network Trash Folder" See the descriptions of the "s" and "r" modifiers under 'The following modifiers are accepted after a "+" or "-"' in the man page for more information. By the way, if some of your excludes are intended to match only files at the top level of F: (rather than in a subdirectory), consider anchoring them with a leading slash, e.g.: --filter="-sr /Network Trash Folder" Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
