#!/usr/bin/perl -w # This script takes a command-line arg of a source directory # that will be passed to rsync, and generates a set of excludes # that will exclude all mount points from the list. This is # useful if you have "bind" mounts since the --one-file-system # option won't notice the transition to a different spot on # the same disk. For example: # # mnt-excl /dir | rsync --exclude-from=- ... /dir /dest/ # mnt-excl /dir/ | rsync --exclude-from=- ... /dir/ /dest/ # ssh host mnt-excl /dir | rsync --exclude-from=- ... host:/dir /dest/ # # Imagine that /dir/foo is a mount point: the first invocation of # mnt-excl would have output /dir/foo, while the second would have # output /foo (which are the properly anchored excludes). # # NOTE: This script expects /proc/mounts to exist, but could be # easily adapted to read /etc/mtab or similar. # # ADDENDUM: The addition of the --filter option (which has support for # absolute-anchored excludes) has made this script less useful than it # was. Beginning with 2.6.4, you can achieve the effect of this script # through this command: # # awk '{print $2}' /proc/mounts | rsync -f 'merge,/- -' host:/dir /dest/ use strict; use Cwd 'abs_path'; my $file = '/proc/mounts'; my $dir = shift || '/'; $dir = abs_path($dir); $dir =~ s#([^/]*)$##; my $trailing = $1; $trailing = '' if $trailing eq '.' || !-d "$dir$trailing"; $trailing .= '/' if $trailing ne ''; open(IN, $file) or die "Unable to open $file: $!\n"; while () { $_ = (split)[1]; next unless s#^\Q$dir$trailing\E##o && $_ ne ''; print "- /$trailing$_\n"; } close IN;