On Tuesday 08 April 2008 15:16, Jeff Larsen wrote:
> 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.
>
--dry-run with --verbose proved informative. My pattern matching was
excluding most of them, so I wasn't getting the backup I thought I was. It
looks as though that particular exclude file should be only
Maildir/.INBOX.Bugs/
Maildir/.Trash/
Thanks for pointing me to the solution.
Anne
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