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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to rsync or tar directory trees, with hidden directory, but without files? Post 302454417 by fld2007 on Saturday 18th of September 2010 05:13:59 AM
Old 09-18-2010
How to rsync or tar directory trees, with hidden directory, but without files?
I want to backup all the directory tress, including hidden directories, without copying any files.
find . -type d gives the perfect list.

When I tried tar, it won't work for me because it tars all the files.
Code:
find . -type d | xargs tar -cvf a.tar

So i tried rsync.
On my own test box, the following works.
Code:
$ rsync -a -f"+ */" -f"- *" source/ destination/

unfortunately, the server I want to do the backup has an older version of rsync (version 2.5.5 protocol version 26), so the command above somehow does not work:
Code:
bash-2.05$ rsync -a -f"+ */" -f"- *" source/ destination.
rsync: -f+ */: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(875)

I have also tried
Code:
rsync -avuzb --exclude '*.*' source/ destination/

It won't copy hidden directories. And it won't exlcude files without suffix.

So please help!
Last edited by pludi; 09-19-2010 at 05:04 PM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       vzmigrate [-r|--remove-area yes|no] [--ssh=ssh_options] [--rsync=rsync_options] [--keep-dst] [--online] [-v] destination_address CTID

DESCRIPTION

       This  utility  is  used	to  migrate  a container from one (source) Hardware Node (HN) to another (destination) HN. The utility can migrate
       either stopped or running container. For a stopped container, simple CT private area transfer is  performed  (rsync(1)  is  used  for  file
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OPTIONS

       -r, --remove-area yes | no
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       --ssh=options
	      Additional options that will be passed to ssh while establishing connection to destination HN.

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	      Additional options that will be passed to rsync(8).  You may add options like -z to enable data compression  if  you  are  migrating
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	  vzmigrate 192.168.1.130 101

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