I run a daily backup using 'rsync -a -F ....'
I want to exclude everything in ~/.local/share **except** the file:-
/home/chris/.local/share/evolution/calendar/system/calendar.ics
I have the following in my rsync-filter file to exclude ~/.local/share
- .local/share
Can I simply add the following before the exclude line:-
+ /home/chris/.local/share/evolution/calendar/system/calendar.ics
It's not quite clear (to me anyway) if this will work or do I have to
somehow add something further to allow the calendar.ics file to be
found? It's the following bit that **seems** to be saying the above
won't work:-
It is also important to understand that the include/exclude
rules are applied to every file and directory that the sender is
recursing into. Thus, if you want a particular deep file to be
included, you have to make sure that none of the directories that must
be traversed on the way down to that file are excluded or else the
file will never be discovered to be included. As an example, if the
directory "a/path" was given as a transfer argument and you want to
ensure that the file "a/path/down/deep/wanted.txt" is a part of the
transfer, then the sender must not exclude the directories "a/path",
"a/path/down", or "a/path/down/deep" as it makes it way scanning
through the file tree.
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Chris Green
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