On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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> Also, includes only override excludes (which I see you are doing) but
> they must be specified BEFORE the exclude they override. IOW, your
> include of .vimrc must be before your exclude of .
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Steven Levine wrote:
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> at 07:34 PM, Robert Parker said:
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> HI Robert,
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> The paths in your --include-from file must be relative to $fromdir.
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> In general, this is true of all paths other than paths specified on the
> command line.
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Also, includes only override excludes (which I see you are doing) but
they must be specified BEFORE the exclude they override. IOW, your
include of .vimrc must be before your exclude of .* or it will not do
anything.
On 09/16/11 11:47, Steven Levine
In ,
on 09/16/11
at 07:34 PM, Robert Parker said:
HI Robert,
>nice -n 15 rsync -avl --exclude=".*" \
>--include-from="/home/bob/backup_includes" \
>"$fromdir" "$todir"
>Here is the content of /home/bob/backup_includes
>/home/bob/.vimrc
>/home/bob/.gitconfig
The paths in your --include-from
Here is part of my backup script:
nice -n 15 rsync -avl --exclude=".*" \
--include-from="/home/bob/backup_includes" \
"$fromdir" "$todir"
Here is the content of /home/bob/backup_includes
/home/bob/.vimrc
/home/bob/.gitconfig
My problem is that neither the .vimrc nor .gitconfig are copied to the
