On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I run several backup scripts by cron, one of which backs up my mail. I do not
> want it to back up the Trash folder, but it appears to be doing so. I
> conclude that my script is faulty somewhere, and would be grateful for
> advice.
>
> The command is
>
> rsync -auvz --delete-after --exclude-from=/home/anne/rsync_skiplist_mail.txt /home/anne/Maildir/ /Data3/anne/Maildir/
>
> where rsync_skiplist_mail.txt says
>
> *~
> .[a-z]*
> .[A-Z]*
> Maildir/.INBOX.Bugs/
> Maildir/.Trash/
>
> Comments, please?
I've always found exclude patterns to be a trial and error process,
mostly errors. They never seem to do what you think they will. As a
starting point, I would try putting a / in from of the Maildir
patterns and put ** at the end of them.
>From "man rsync" (sorry, I know you're a CentOS list regular and have
probably read the man page, but sometimes the relevant text fails to
stand out):
The easiest way to see what name you should include/exclude is
to just look at
the output when using --verbose and put a / in front of the
name (use the --dry-
run option if you're not yet ready to copy any files).
I think this is one of the weakest features of rsync. I wish they
would implement something that would generate more predictable
outcomes.
--
Jeff
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