Re: Excluding/Hiding a local, absolute path in 3.0.7

2010-03-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
[Going through old email. I wanted to confirm whether there was an rsync bug here.] On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:16 -0500, Ryan Flannery wrote: > The command I'm using is this: >rsync -avz --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=foo.txt /etc/ > $dest:path > > Where foo.txt contains either: >

Excluding/Hiding a local, absolute path in 3.0.7

2010-02-03 Thread Ryan Flannery
Hello, I'm attempting to update many of my rsync scripts and was trying to hide/exclude absolute files/directories from being sync'd. After reading through the man page section on FILTER RULES, their modifiers, etc., and the mailing list, it seems like the following simple example should work. I