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Mark Sookram
Asked: 2020-05-08 07:45:16 +0800 CST

Rsync using absolute paths

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I have two RHEL 7 servers.

On my Source I have the following directories

/sourcestuff/testresync
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl1
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl1/test1.txt
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl2
/sourcestuff/testresync/incl2/test2.txt
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl3
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl3/test2.txt
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl4
/sourcestuff/testresync/excl4/test2.txt

On my Destination I have the following directories

/destinationstuff/testresync
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl1
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl2
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl3
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl4

What I am trying to do is copy the data from my Source to my Destination and exclude the /sourcestuff/testresync/excl3 and /sourcestuff/testresync/excl4 from the Source

What I have tried

rsync -av --relative /sourcestuff/testrsync/./ --exclude '/sourcestuff/testrsync/excl3/' --exclude '/sourcestuff/testrsync/excl4/' user@SERVERIP:/destinationstuff/testrsync

I have read the documentation that the -exclude option relies on the source but everything I try the excl3 and excl4 data still gets transferred.

I have also tried the other way does not work

What I want my Destination to look like:

/destinationstuff/testresync
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl1
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl1/test1.txt  
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl2
/destinationstuff/testresync/incl2/test2.txt
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl3
/destinationstuff/testresync/excl4
rsync rhel7

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As you know, when you use --relative then normally a source path like /a/b/ will get reproduced at a destination of /d as /d/a/b/, and to exclude directory /a/b you would use --exclude /a/b/.

    However, when you add the /./ to the source path, like /a/./b/ then only the part after the dot is copied, i.e. you get /d/b/. But, the exclude path has to change too, to be only the part after the dot, --exclude /b/.

    So modify your exclude patterns to something like /excl3/.

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