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Old 11-24-2009
rsync question...
hi all,

i didnt know where to place the question on this site but seen as though it relates to a script i have done so here...

my issue is this...

i have 2 servers.

On server 1 (master) I have a structure such as /home/test/folder1,/home/test/folder2 and /home/test/folder3.

On server 2 I have the same structure.

However on server 2, I run rsync to fetch the root folder 'test' from server 1 and update an exclude file with paths test/folder1/fileA, test/folder1/fileA,...

When I run rsync on server 2, the verbose shows it pulling files from 'test/XXX' etc...however what I see each time I run rsync is that all files keep being copied across instead of the latest files from each of folder1,folder2 and folder3 despite me supplying an exclude file....Smilie

I have supplied an exclude-from command to the rsync command but I cant seem to prevent rsync from fetching every file each time the rsync command runs (configured to run every min).Smilie

Do I need to change the exclude-from command to be a specific path? such as /home/test/folder1/fileA* etc instead of test/folder1/fileA etc?

Any help appreciated.

rsync command:
rsync --exclude-from=</pathtofile> ....
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rdiff

rdiff(1)						      General Commands Manual							  rdiff(1)

NAME

       rdiff - compute and apply signature-based file differences

SYNOPSYS

       rdiff [options] signature old-file signature-file

       rdiff [options] delta signature-file new-file delta-file

       rdiff [options] patch basis-file delta-file new-file

USAGE

       You  can  use  rdiff  to  update  files, much like rsync does.  However, unlike rsync, rdiff puts you in control.  There are three steps to
       updating a file: signature, delta, and patch.

DESCRIPTION

       In every case where a filename must be specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or standard  output  as  appropriate.
       Be aware that if you do this, you'll need to terminate your options with -- or rdiff will think you are passing it an empty option.

RETURN VALUE

       0  for successful completion, 1 for environmental problems (file not found, invalid options, IO error, etc), 2 for a corrupt file and 3 for
       an internal error or unhandled situation in librsync or rdiff.

SEE ALSO

       librsync(3)

AUTHOR

       Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>

       The original rsync algorithm was discovered by Andrew Tridgell.

       rdiff development has been supported by Linuxcare, Inc and VA Linux Systems.

							   $Date: 2002/01/25 21:25:34 $ 						  rdiff(1)