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Schmolch
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 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:54 am Post subject: rsync question |
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| Why does rsync / /mnt/backup --exclude "/" build a file-list, shouldn't it simply do nothing? |
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shadow255
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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The authors of the man page for rsync indicate that your command should not be used (following excerpt is from the EXCLUDE PATTERNS section):
| Code: | The filenames matched against the exclude/include patterns are relative
to the destination directory, or "top directory", so patterns should
not include the path elements of the source or destination directories.
The only way in which a pattern will match the absolute path of a file
or directory is if the source path is the root directory. |
You may be thinking that since the source path is the root directory, your pattern should work, but I would say that "/" is very much indeed a path element of the root directory, so all bets are off.
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