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leosgb
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 Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:32 am Post subject: rsync: how to send only specific files to remote host |
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Hi,
I would like to make a backup of my website to another machine that I have using rsync. I read the man pages and I came up with this solution for my problem:
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rsync -vurpEog --delete --include="*.html" --include="*.med.jpg" --include="*.med.JPG" /pictures 192.168.1.220:/home/superman/pictures
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But it copied all the files.
A description: I use "album" script to generate my website with pictures. The site is organized in a hierarchical form, year/month/day. There are files along the way. But I dont need to copy the original sized pictures since they are already stored in another media for backup. I just want to backup the website structure itself so I dont need to generate the page all over again (it can take quite some time for several pictures).
I would like to copy all ".html" files and all files in the last "tn/" folder. I also need to bring the whole tree structure intact.
So, say:
/pictures --> *.html
/pictures/2007/ --> *.html
/pictures/2007/January/ --> *.html
/pictures/2007/January/01_01/ --> *.html
/pictures/2007/January/01_01/ tn/ --> everything (*.html, *.JPG, *.jpg, *.med.jpg, *.med.JPG)
To finalize, the question is: how to command rsync to perform the above task? Is there a better way to do it?
Thank you very much for any help, |
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JeliJami
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | man rsync
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--include=PATTERN don't exclude files matching PATTERN
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which probably means that include only works as an exception for excludes
maybe try something like
| Code: | | rsync --exclude="*" --include="*html" ... |
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leosgb
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:02 am Post subject: |
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Actually, when I tested it here with the flag it only copied the top folder (no files). Maybe you use either include or exclude... Do you know how to use rsync to transfer only a certain extension as I asked?
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JeliJami
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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maybe it's easier to do something like this (warning: untested code):
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$ find /pictures -type f \( -name "*html" -o -iname "*med.jpg" \) > ${tmp}
$ rsync ... --include-from="${tmp}" ...
$ rm ${tmp}
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ppurka
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Tip: Use -n flag to rsync to "simulate" the file transfers.
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