From 3feece593862da55627c6b714b268ca1ed8ea220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:16:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Improve the discussion of the absolute-filter alternative. --- support/mnt-excl | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/support/mnt-excl b/support/mnt-excl index c6df5866..f8aaea79 100755 --- a/support/mnt-excl +++ b/support/mnt-excl @@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ # 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: +# absolute-anchored excludes) can make this screen unneeded in some +# scenarios. If you don't need delete protection on the receiving side +# (or if the destination path is identical to the source path), then you +# can exclude some absolute paths from the transfer based on the mount +# dirs. For instance: # -# awk '{print $2}' /proc/mounts | rsync -f 'merge,/- -' host:/dir /dest/ +# awk '{print $2}' /proc/mounts | rsync -avf 'merge,/- -' /dir host:/dest/ use strict; use warnings; -- 2.34.1