Anyone play with rsync much?

[Terry Tanski]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Madison Kelly wrote:

>    I want to use 'rsync' to backup a partition and I plan(ned) to use 
> the '--exclude-from="/path/to/foo"' and '--exclude-from="/path/to/bar"' 
> options to build the list of files to exclude (foo) and (I hope) the 
> exceptions to the excludes (bar).
> 
>    For example, Say I want to -not- backup '/home' except for the one 
> directory '/home/madison' I was thinking I could add '/home' to 'foo' 
> and then add '/home/madison' to 'bar'. This doesn't work though, the 
> '--exclude-from' seems to always take precedence regardless of where I 
> call it. Does anyone have a tip or suggestion on how I could go about 
> this? Thanks!!

foo file should read: /home/*
bar file shold read: /home/madison

The * above is important. The rsync line then would be:

rsync --include-from=bar --exclude-from=foo

Terry

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