Re: [gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

[Mick]

On Tuesday 16 November 2010 14:15:00 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:28 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Mick did
> opine thusly:
> > On 16 November 2010 09:00, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
> > > Am 15.11.2010 23:50, schrieb Mick:

> > > You don't show us what you did ...
> >
> > I ran the same as before but changed the path to the one you suggested:
> >
> > ===============================
> > 'rsync -a -l -v --exclude "./System Volume Information"
> > -e "ssh -c blowfish -l root" /mnt/User_WinXP/
> > 10.10.10.25:/home/httpd/backup'
> >
> > sending incremental file list
> > rsync: opendir "/mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume Information" failed:
> > Permission denied (13)
> >
> > [snip ...]
> >
> > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous
> > errors) (code 23) at main.c(1042) [sender=3.0.7]
> > ===============================
> >
> > The System Volume is shown as 0700 (mounted with default permissions)
> > and is owned by root when viewed from Gentoo.
>
> Don't think of --exclude as being a file path match, think of it as more a
> regex (usually just a literal one). It specifies a pattern that if found if
> the full pathname, results in the file not being synced.
>
> The string "./System Volume Information" of course appears nowhere in the
> rsync output list of files.
>
> I think you want:
>
> --exclude "/System Volume Information"
>
> Then rsync will not attempt to open the directory at all

Excellent, it worked!  :-)

Thank you all for your help.
-- 
Regards,
Mick