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mamr

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Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 63

[SOLVED] Rsync: inclusion of subdirectories doesn't work

I do make backups to a LUKS-encrypted HDD via rsync. For that I mount the decrypted HDD to /mnt/backup.

I use the following command in order to synchronize:

rsync -zavhP --exclude-from='/home/user/commandlinefoo/rsync/rsync.txt' --delete -b --backup-dir '/mnt/backup/deleted/' /home/user/ /mnt/backup/user

The file /home/user/commandlinefoo/rsync/rsync.txt looks like this:

- Videos/
- VirtualBox VMs/
+ .thunderbird/
+ ~/.config/chromium/
+ .vimrc
+ .git
+ .gitignore
+ *.abcde.conf
+ .config/user-dirs.dirs
+ .encfs6.xml
+ .zshrc
+ .zsh_history
+ .zshenv
+ .Xresources
+ .fonts.conf
+ .offlineimaprc
+ .netrc
+ .npmrc
- .*

My only problem: The subfolders ~/.thunderbird/ and ~/.config/chromium/ don't get synchronised. I tried all this different versions for ~/.config/chromium/:

+ .config/chromium
+ .config/chromium/
+ .config/chromium/**
+ ~/.config/chromium
+ ~/.config/chromium/
+ ~/.config/chromium/**

Same with ~/.thunderbird/. They all didn't work. The dotfiles (e.g. .zshrc) get synchronized perfectly. What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by mamr (2015-03-31 06:56:45)

Bevan

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Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 100

Re: [SOLVED] Rsync: inclusion of subdirectories doesn't work

Hi,

for the chromium dir the following works for me:

[…]
+ .config
+ .config/chromium
- .config/*
[…]
- .*

For .thunderbird I have no idea. That should just work as for every other directory...

mamr

Member

Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 63

Re: [SOLVED] Rsync: inclusion of subdirectories doesn't work

Thanks it does work now. Both of them. Don't know why ~/.thunderbird works but it seems I overlooked something yesterday. ~/.config/chromium does work, too. But isn't there a simpler solution?

Last edited by mamr (2015-03-31 06:55:57)