Anyone play with rsync much?

[Charly Baker]

The rsync include-from and exclude-from are arcane and buggy.  Better to get 
the newer versions that have a sane files-from parameter.  You should be 
using the newer versions anyway as they have security fixes.  I have not yet 
used the new parameter, but I have fought with the old ones extensively and 
don't recommend it.  If you do use the older setup, put all of the stuff in 
one file (you don't need separate files for the include and exclude 
specifications) and you may have some hope of making sense of it.

Charly Baker

On Tuesday May 18 2004 12:14 pm, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    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!!
>
> Madison
>
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