Re: Help using --exclude

2003-07-28 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:17:06PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:31:41PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > > --exclude=/*/.mozilla/**/Cache/ > > Wayne, if i recall correctly this pattern will break if an > upgrade includes a change to your wildmatch code. In this case the

Re: "-b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/" combination doesnot act as expected

2003-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:19:23PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > If you use rsync with the following options: > > -b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/to/mybackupdir > > You will find that it works properly with one exception: the deleted files > are not properly put into /path/to/myb

Re: Help using --exclude

2003-07-28 Thread Scott Sewall
Using "--exclude=/*/.mozilla/**/Cache/" works great. Thanks for your help. -- Scott Wayne Davison wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:21:38PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote: My hope was the exclude pattern .mozilla/**/Cache/ would prevent the Cache directory and all files within it from being cop

"-b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/" combination does notact as expected

2003-07-28 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
If you use rsync with the following options: -b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/to/mybackupdir You will find that it works properly with one exception: the deleted files are not properly put into /path/to/mybackupdir. (Modified files are handled properly.) I have traced the problem

Re: Help using --exclude

2003-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:31:41PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:21:38PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote: > > My hope was the exclude pattern .mozilla/**/Cache/ would prevent the > > Cache directory and all files within it from being copied. > > This fails in the released vers

Re: Help using --exclude

2003-07-28 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:21:38PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote: > My hope was the exclude pattern .mozilla/**/Cache/ would prevent the > Cache directory and all files within it from being copied. This fails in the released versions of rsync due to a bug in the exclude code (though the CVS version ha

Help using --exclude

2003-07-28 Thread Scott Sewall
I'm running rsync v2.5.5 on FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE. I'm using rsync to mirror the home directories of user's desktop machines. I would like to exclude the cache of browsers such as mozilla or netscape. Unfortunately I have not been able to find the right syntax for the --exclude option. I hope s