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Old 12-01-2011
rsync and mtime
Hi, I'm sure this will be covered here already somewhere, but a search didn't throw up anything.

I'm trying to work out the extra bits needed in this command for this rsync so that it only copies files less than 7 days old:

Code:
rsync me@host:/logs/* .

I'm sure it just needs the mtime -7 command somewhere in that, but I'll be darned if I can work out where.

Thanks for any advice
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-02-2011 at 11:53 AM.. Reason: code tags please
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Old 12-02-2011
You need to build an exclude file:
Code:
ssh me@host ' find /logs/ -mtime +7 > /tmp/excludefile'
scp me@host:/tmp/excludefile .
rsync --excludefrom=excludefile  me@host:/logs/* .

# 3  
Old 12-05-2011
Hi thanks for that, but I've finally worked out the syntax for doing it as a one liner.
Code:
rsync me@host:'`find /logs/* -mtime -7 -print`' .

Last edited by Scott; 12-05-2011 at 04:56 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
 
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