Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 26 July 2009 17:45: >On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:37 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: >> I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns >> but still want to preserve some other. For example consider below >> source and destination directory hierarchy. >> >> Source Dest >> ---------- --------- >> /foo/bar/ /foo/bar/ >> | -> baz | -> baz >> | -> xyz | -> xyz >> | -> abc | -> abc >> | -> old-baz >> >> I am below comand using --delete-excluded and as a result rsync >> deletes exluded directories "baz" and "abc" and also deletes >> "old-baz". I want to preserve the "old-baz" and "baz" directories on >> destination side and want "abc" to gets deleted. Could you tell me how >> to tell rsync to do this? >> >> rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --delete-excluded --exclude=/baz --exclude=/abc >> desthost:/foo/bar/ > >Recall that an exclude filter is shorthand for a hide plus a protect if >--delete-excluded is off, or just a hide if it is on.. Since you want >some of your filters to protect destination files from deletion but not >others, your best bet would be to drop the --delete-excluded and specify >individual hide, protect, and plain exclude (hide+protect) filters. For >more detail, carefully read the "FILTER RULES" section of the man page. > >Something like the following should do what you described: > >rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --exclude=/baz --filter='H /abc' \ > --filter='P /old-baz' desthost:/foo/bar/
Would just --filter='P /abc' (without the --filter='H...') also work? -- 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
