Help with rsync filter file

Meson · 09-29-2008, 01:42 PM

I want to have some filter for my home directory like:

Code:

# My rsync filter

+ /.mozilla/
- /.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache/
- /.mozilla/firefox/*/lock
- /.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock

+ /.mozilla-thunderbird/
- /.mozilla-thunderbird/*/lock
- /.mozilla-thunderbird/*/.parentlock

+ /.purple/

+ /.gnupg/

+ /.ssh/

+ /Documents/

+ /Pictures/

+ /Music/

+ /Video/

+ /bin/

+ /Database.kdb

- Thumbs.db
- thumbs.db
- Desktop.ini
- desktop.ini

which I should be able to run with a command like:

Code:

$ rsync -r -a --filter-file=myfile ~/ /media/backup

However it's saying things like "+ /.mozilla" is not a file. So I tried renaming the file to .rsync-filter and invoking the -F option however it recursively included EVERYTHING. Do I need a - /** option or something?

Which of the filter file options am I supposed to use with a file like this?

Meson · 09-29-2008, 06:59 PM

I was able to do this:

Code:

$ rsync -a --filter='merge .rsync-filter' ~ /media/backup

with the following .rsync-filter file:

Code:

+ /.mozilla/
- /.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache/
- /.mozilla/firefox/*/lock
- /.mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock
+ /.mozilla-thunderbird/
- /.mozilla-thunderbird/*/lock
- /.mozilla-thunderbird/*/.parentlock
+ /.purple/
+ /.gnupg/
+ /.ssh/
+ /Documents/
+ /Pictures/
+ /Music/
+ /Video/
+ /bin/
+ /Database.kdb

- /*

Is that the best way to do an explicit include? What's the deal with the --files-from option?