[PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

Reid nrwahl at protonmail.com
Wed Jul 17 23:10:11 UTC 2019


Edit:

# rsync -r $(find ~ -maxdepth 1 ! -name "data") SRC DEST

should be:

# rsync -r $(find ~ -maxdepth 1 ! -name "data") DEST

since the find result would be your SRC in this case.


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On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 4:08 PM, Reid <nrwahl at protonmail.com> wrote:

> The `--exclude` option might do what you need.
>
> [root at fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 home_tmpdir]# ls -R
> .:
> file1 file2 file3 tmpdir
>
> ./tmpdir:
> file4 file5 file6
>
> [root at fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 home_tmpdir]# rsync -r --exclude=tmpdir . /tmp/tmpdir1
>
> [root at fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 home_tmpdir]# rsync -r . /tmp/tmpdir2
>
> [root at fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 home_tmpdir]# ls -R /tmp/tmpdir1
> /tmp/tmpdir1:
> file1 file2 file3
>
> [root at fastvm-rhel-7-6-21 home_tmpdir]# ls -R /tmp/tmpdir2
> /tmp/tmpdir2:
> file1 file2 file3 tmpdir
>
> /tmp/tmpdir2/tmpdir:
> file4 file5 file6
>
> However, this will also exclude any file names within the ~ directory structure that contain the string "data". You could use the find command instead to get all the subdirectories of ~ besides ~/data. I believe this command will work:
>
> rsync -r $(find ~ -maxdepth 1 ! -name "data") SRC DEST
>
> =======================================================
>
> Ben's exclude pattern doesn't work for me; it still pulls the data dir. The`--exclude` option pattern-matches against the file name (and a directory name is a file name). It doesn't seem to pattern-match against the path.
>
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 3:51 PM, Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com wrote:
>
> > Copying directories from one desktop to another using rsync. The rsync man
> > page shows how to specify directories and individual files, but I've not
> > seen how to exclude a subdirectory.
> > On the source host is a directory ~/data/. On the target host /home is on
> > /dev/sda2 while data is a separate partition (/dev/sda3).
> > What syntax allows me to copy all files but those in the source ~/data/
> > subdirectory to ~/ on the target host?
> > TIA,
> > Rich
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