Qn about rsnapshot/rsync directory filter rules
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Tue Feb 22 03:49:39 UTC 2011
On 20Feb2011 22:22, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
| The include/exclude rules are just passed through to rsync. The man page
| for rsync has a fairly extensive discussion of the syntax. I don't see a
| direct statement that the rules are evaluated in strict order, but it
| seems natural.
They're just like ACLs: first match applies. From the man page, undef
"FILTER RULES":
As the list of files/directories to transfer is built, rsync checks
each name to be transferred against the list of include/exclude pat-
terns in turn, and the first matching pattern is acted on
So to rsync just specific directories one's rules might read (however
expressed):
+ /dir1
+ /dir2
- /*
to do just dir1 and dir2.
Cheers,
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