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What is the first matching rule in rsync?
For each file, the first matching rule applies (and anything never matched is included). If a pattern doesn’t contain a /, it applies to the file name sans directory. If a pattern ends with /, it applies to directories only. If a pattern starts with /, it applies to the whole path from the directory that was passed as an argument to rsync.
When to use pattern only in rsync filter?
Patterns: If a pattern doesn’t contain a /, it applies to the file name sans directory. If a pattern ends with /, it applies to directories only. If a pattern starts with /, it applies to the whole path from the directory that was passed as an argument to rsync.
How to use rsync to copy only specific files?
One idea I have – is to use find command and cpio together to copy to new directory with content I need and after that use Rsync. But this is very slow, there are a lot of files, etc. I’ve found the reason. As for me – it wasn’t clear that Rsync works in this way. I.e. we need include each parent company directory.
When to tell Rsync to include all its ancestors?
If the first matching pattern excludes a directory, then all its descendants will never be traversed. When you want to include a deep directory e.g. company*/unique_folder1/** but exclude everything else *, you need to tell rsync to include all its ancestors too:
How to rsync only a specific list of files?
For the record, none of the answers above helped except for one. To summarize, you can do the backup operation using –files-from= by using either: The former command is self explanatory, beside the content of the file rsync-src-files which I will elaborate down below.
How can I transfer files from man rsync?
From man rsync: Using this option allows you to specify the exact list of files to transfer (as read from the specified FILE or – for standard input). It also tweaks the default behavior of rsync to make transferring just the specified files and directories easier:
How does rsync copy files to the destination?
Rsync copies the source (s) to the destination. If you pass *.pdf as sources, the shell expands this to the list of files with the .pdf extension in the current directory. No recursive traversal happens because you didn’t pass any directory as a source.