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TmCrafz
Asked: 2021-05-17 07:01:45 +0800 CST

Rsync exclude all files in dir except specific files

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I'm trying to exlude all files of the directory cache/, except some specific files. Beside I want to Backup every other files in my source.

Content of source dir:

backup-test/
├── cache
│   ├── adodb
│   │   ├── .htaccess
│   │   ├── index.html
│   │   ├── test-adodb-1.html
│   │   ├── test-adodb-2.html
│   │   └── test-adodb-3.html
│   ├── .htaccess
│   ├── test-cache-1.html
│   ├── test-cache-2.html
│   └── test-cache-3.html
├── .htaccess
├── test-root-1.html
├── test-root-2.html
└── test-root-3.html

The files in cache/ I want to backup and shouldn't be excluded:

cache/index.html
cache/adodb/.htaccess

My command:

rsync -av --delete \
--include "cache/index.html" \
--include "cache/adodb/.htaccess" \
--exclude "cache/*" \
-e ssh "$SSH_REMOTE":"$BACKUP_SOURCE" "$BACKUP_DEST"

Output:

receiving incremental file list
backup-test/
backup-test/.htaccess
backup-test/test-root-1.html
backup-test/test-root-2.html
backup-test/test-root-3.html
backup-test/cache/

sent 174 bytes  received 431 bytes  1,210.00 bytes/sec
total size is 35  speedup is 0.06

But it's not working as I expect. Rsync only backups an empty cache/ dir, without my included files. What can I do?

rsync

1 Answers

  1. I found the solution.I hope this help you to not spend that much time.

    first you can create a file(include.txt) which you will used in include-from and in that you can add below lines & save it:

    + index.html
+ adodb*
+ adodb/.htaccess
- *

    you can then use this rsync command to backup only include this files mentioned in include.txt and exclude everything:

    Blockquote

    rsync -ruvv --rsh=ssh --include-from=include.txt   remoteSrv:/cache/   $BACKUP_DEST

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