Is it possible to prevent rsync from walking into an excluded dir?

kokoko3k · 2019-11-24 13:56:17

I'm trying to make a backup via rsync, but i'm facing the following:

sudo rsync --recursive -a --delete --delete-excluded --progress --one-file-system / \
--exclude '*/mnt/autofs*' \
$DEST/

From what i understood, and as stated in the rsync man page:

--exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATT

Still, when i start it:

[..]
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcpasswd"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/python2.5"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcinfo"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcnew"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcmount"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcreencrypt"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/vmware-uninstall"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcunlink"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/xt7-player"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcfsck"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcumount"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/kde-config"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bclink"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcmake_hidden"
file has vanished: "/mnt/autofs/gozer/bin/bcformat"
[..]

...So rsync enters the autofs tree causing everything to be mounted, and then skips everything; but slowing everything down.
How can i tell it: "Hey, that dir is excluded, don't walk into it" ?

Thanks.

-EDIT-
By now i'm stopping autofs before the backup and enabling it afterwards.

Last edited by kokoko3k (2019-11-24 14:05:30)

Trilby · 2019-11-24 15:11:03

Your pattern is wrong. '*/mnt/autofs/*' does not match anything under /mnt/autofs. Remove the leading asterisk.

kokoko3k · 2019-11-24 16:32:41

Thanks, did it.
However for some reason now it honours --one-file-system directive (autofs mounts his own filesystem under /mnt/autofs), so i cannot test if removing the wildcard suffices.
Now that i think of it, shouldn't it be: "mnt/autofs*" instead of "/mnt/autofs*" ?

qinohe · 2019-11-24 18:34:58

kokoko3k wrote:

Now that i think of it, shouldn't it be: "mnt/autofs*" instead of "/mnt/autofs*" ?

Not if it is part of the command itself, but if you put in an exclude file then yes.

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#1 2019-11-24 13:56:17

Is it possible to prevent rsync from walking into an excluded dir?

#2 2019-11-24 15:11:03

Re: Is it possible to prevent rsync from walking into an excluded dir?

#3 2019-11-24 16:32:41

Re: Is it possible to prevent rsync from walking into an excluded dir?

#4 2019-11-24 18:34:58

Re: Is it possible to prevent rsync from walking into an excluded dir?

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