rsync filters

[Hal Burgiss]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:15:31AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 12:33 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 
> 
> > For instance, I get this kind of output ...
> > 
> > bin/
> > deleting bin/znew
> > deleting bin/zmore
> > deleting bin/zless
> > deleting bin/zgrep
> 
> > The command line I am using is: 
> > rsync  -vazSHF --no-blocking-io --partial --delete-during --delete-excluded --timeout 600 --dry-run  / $sync_dst:/
> > 
> 
> Your problem is the --delete-excluded flag.  It will delete files on the
> target which are excluded on the source.  That is why you are getting
> the delete messages.  You probably want the --delete flag which will
> delete files on the target which are not on the source and not in the
> excluded category.

Command line is now:
 -vazSHF --no-blocking-io --partial --delete-during --delete --timeout 600 --dry-run

with what looks to be identical results as previously. We still want to delete
everything in /bin. 

What really does not make sense to me, is that I have excluded all toplevel
directories. Yet there is different behavior from some as compared to others.
Eg, /bin wants to be deleted, /sys does not. Yet, they are specified in
*identical* syntax. 

- /usr/*
- /bin/*
- /boot/*
- /dev/*
- /initrd
- /lib/*
- /media/*
- /mnt/
- /opt/*
- /proc/*
- /sbin/*
- /srv/*
- /sys/*
- /tmp/*
- initrd.img
- /vmlinuz/*
- /cdrom/*
- /raid/*
- /proc/*
- /var/*
- /etc/*


Thanks for the ideas, keep 'em coming. There is something I am missing and its
probably too obvious for me to see it.

-- 
Hal