On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:49, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:13, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Yes, I suspected that would be the solution, but held off until I resolve > > the multiple exclusion question and recursivity. I will make local > > backups to RW of any config files I suspect I'd want to keep. However, > > can you see any reason why the command I gave would act recursively? > > That was totally unexpected, and undesired at this stage. I need to > > workout the exclusion list first. > > See the rsync man page about all of the other options that '-a' > implies. Ah yes - I had read it, but missed the fact that -r is included. > Recursion is one of them. But, I thought earlier you > said you wanted it to always pick up new additions. > Yes, finally. I just hadn't intended it at that stage. It's a matter of trying to make sure that I understand all the implications ;-) That only leaves the question of how to set multiple exclusions. It looks to me as though exclude-from=filename is going to be the best way to do it. Is that right? With a man page this long you can read until you are bog-eyed ;-) Anne
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