Re: [tlug] [TLUG] Rsync exclusion question

[Romeo Theriault <romeo.theriault@example.com>]

> I thought I could simply add a --exclude="*.lease" flag in the rsync
> command, based on Google searches, and personal tests, but that
> doesn't seem to work still.

Hmm, that's interesting. I've not had to use the exclude option before so I can't speak to that but an idea popped to mind while I was reading your email. Granted it's probably a bit cumbersome and dependent on your underlying technology. But figured I'd share it anyway :)

If the partition that holds the repository is on a linux box and you are using LVM on the volume you could take a snapshot of the volume before each rsync backup, mount the snapshot, run a find /path -name *.temp --exec rm {} \; on the directory, call the rsync, when that is done, umount the snapshot volume and delete it.

See, I told you it would cumbersome. :) You're probably better off figuring out the rsync issue.

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Romeo Theriault
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