Re: Trying to define exclude with an include list

2007-06-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:08:08PM +1000, Daryl Sayers wrote: > + /u1/important > - /tmp > - /var/tmp > - /var/lock > > - /u1 The man page talks about how the exclusion of the parent directory short-circuits the directory traversal, and the u1 dir is never even visited (giving the include no

Trying to define exclude with an include list

2007-05-31 Thread Daryl Sayers
I need to backup a set of machines that are very similar in nature. I had created an exclude list to backup everything except whats in my list. I then used the --exclude-from=myexcludefile so rsync would not copy unwanted files. eg: /tmp /var/tmp /var/lock long list of others /u1 I have 2 d