On 11/19/2011 9:04 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote:

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:49:18 +0100 "Brian K. White" wrote:

nj2:/opt/x # rsync -avvvn --force --delete --include=/tmp
--include=floof/ --exclude='*' /tmp/. co4::root/tmp/.

Detail: /tmp being the "root of the transfer", "--include=/tmp" is
wrong because it refers then to /tmp/tmp.

I thing you can do what you want by using a risk filter rule instead
of an include one.

Try:

   rsync -avvvn --force --delete \
       --filter='R /floof/***' --exclude='*' \
       /tmp/. co4::root/tmp/.

This should remove recursively co4::root/tmp/floof without browsing
integrally /tmp nor co4::root/tmp.

     Francis


root of the transfer is always "/"
Call it bad policy if you want but the way I'm managing a collection of more or less cookie cutter boxes is, all boxes have a rsync daemon running, and /etc/rsyncd.conf includes:

------------
uid = root
gid = sys
read only = false
use chroot = true
numeric ids = false
munge symlinks = false
transfer logging = true
log format = %h %o %f %l %b
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
#hosts allow = trusted.hosts
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

[root]
        path = /
        auth users = root
------------

so, while logged in as root on the devel box or any other box I can
rsync -avz /path/to/src host::root/path/to
or
rsync -avz host::root/path/to/src /path/to

And this script relies on that to make it basically brainless for the developers to be able to say:

pushfile /path/to/thing
pushfile /path/to/thing host

and /path/to/thing is replicated from devel to all production boxes, or from whatever box the developer is on, to "host" without actually knowing any rsync syntax or remembering to include "thing" in the source and remove "thing" from the destination etc, the script does that.

I don't have a specific question with this email, just clarifying the context and what's actually going on. I had to put the "add a delete option" project aside for a few days, so it does not work, but I still have things I haven't tried so that's only normal and I'm not asking for any more help until I have done my own homework first.

Actually my first idea of doing a reverse sync with the --remove-files option set, and then just deleting the local copy that gets pulled down, that actually worked, it was just less efficient than ideal.

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bkw
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