I've been trying to figure out how to backup the contents of my file server's (CentOS via smb) user's folder, ignoring certain file types and directories. It seems like this should be easy, but I'm not getting anywhere on figuring out how to ignore multiple directories.
I'd like to ignore the following:
all files and directories starting with a . or a _
all MS Office temp files (eg ~$*)
lock files (eg .lock)
I've tried a bunch of different combinations of the --exclude flag, but can't get any to work right.
This is the command that makes the most sense, but it's not excluding anything:
s3cmd sync --dry-run --verbose --delete-removed --exclude '.*' '_*' '~$*' '*.lock' /home/user-folder s3://bucket-name/
If you are already using .gitignore, you can do something like
s3cmd sync --exclude '.git/*' --exclude-from .gitignore <local_dir> s3://<bucket>/
as stated in this blog post and confirmed by the documentation for --exclude-from from the official docs (Ctrl+F and search for "exclude-from").
It works great, with one minor drawback: if you're excluding a folder within .gitignore, you must exclude its contents also, or s3cmd will grab its contents. However, this is easy, you can just add a line like <foldername>/* inside the .gitignore and everything will be ok.
EDIT:
Well, better than this. Set up a .s3ignore file and just refer to it from the sync command:
s3cmd sync --exclude-from .s3ignore <local_dir> s3://<bucket>/
.s3ignore example:
.git
.git/*
.gitignore
node_modules
node_modules/*
*.swo
*.swp
*.pyo
*.pyc
I've do something similar. The key is to use --exclude before each pattern you want to match:
s3cmd -v --recursive --exclude ".ts" --exclude ".aac" --exclude "/thumbnails" put /var/www/folder s3://bucket/
Also I managed to use .ts without the wildcard symbol and it worked in my case!
Other answers mention passing --exclude <pattern> for each pattern, and packing all patterns into a file to pass with --exclude-from <file>
Using regex:
You can also pack all patterns into a regular expression and pass it with the --rexclude option:
The Regex pattern for the question above: ".^\.*|._*|.~$*|.*.lock"
s3cmd sync --dry-run --verbose --delete-removed --rexclude ".^\.*|._*|.~$*|.*.lock" /home/user-folder s3://bucket-name/
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I'm trying to use LFTP in my GitLab continuous integration setup so I can mirror JSON files with my destination. However, I'd like to only mirror on a set of folders using a wildcard, but I cannot seem to get this working.
I tried this mirror command configuration in LFTP, but this results in a "No such file or directory" error. I assume I'm parsing the wildcard wrong somehow.
What I tried: lftp -c "set sftp:auto-confirm true; open sftp://$DEVELOPMENT_DEPLOY_USER:$DEVELOPMENT_DEPLOY_PASSWORD#$DEVELOPMENT_DEPLOY_HOST:$DEVELOPMENT_DEPLOY_PORT; mirror -Rev ./somefolder_* $DEVELOPMENT_DESTINATION_FOLDER --ignore-time --parallel=10 --exclude .* --exclude .*/ --include ./*.json"
Results in:
/home/gitlab-runner/builds/82ffc821/0/somegroup/someproject/somefolder_*: No such file or directory
I'm probably missing something obvious. Would appreciate any help.
Maybe old but find that in man :
Include and exclude options can be specified multiple times. It means
that a file or direc‐
tory would be mirrored if it matches an include and does not match to excludes after the
include, or does not match anything and the first check is exclude. Directories are matched
with a slash appended.
So first it will execute "include" argument, lastly "exclude" with is " --exclude .* --exclude .*/". After that glob, no file math to mirror. Use "--verbose" to check what files are touch by lftp
I'm having an issue excluding directories on a nightly backup script using S3cmd.
I'm trying to exclude certain files from being backed up (log files, etc...)
My server structure is:
/srv/users/USERNAME/
/srv/users/USERNAME2/
etc...
So I'm running an s3cmd on cron, similar to:
s3cmd sync --config=/path/to/config/.s3cfg --delete-removed --exclude-from=/path/to/exclude/backups.exclude /srv/ s3://aws-bucket/
where my backups.exclude file contains:
/srv/users/*/log
/srv/users/*/run
As well as some other similar directories. As should be obvious, I'd like to catch all user directories with that wildcard to exclude them from backup.
However, it doesn't seem to be working. I'm currently running s3cmd version 2 (I upgraded to see if maybe it was a bug).
Thanks!
Ok I figured this out, it was related to the paths. For the sync source, I used /srv (no slash) instead of /srv/ and also updated the excludes file to remove the starting slash, srv/users/*/log/ and added a trailing slash.
I backup my data with rsync and would like to exclude a specific filetype in only one directory (and its subdirectories). For example I have:
$ ls Source/
Folder1/a.tar
Folder1/b.dat
Folder2/c.tar
Folder2/d.dat
Folder2/Subfolder3/e.tar
Folder2/Subfolder3/f.dat
Folder2/Subfolder3/g.pdf
Now I would like to sync all files except for the .tar files in Folder2 and its subfolder. At the end it should look like this:
$ ls Target/
Folder1/a.tar
Folder1/b.dat
Folder2/d.dat
Folder2/Subfolder3/f.dat
Folder2/Subfolder3/g.pdf
Does someone know how to do that? I played around with the --exclude option, but without luck.
rsync manual says
INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES
...
o use ’**’ to match anything, including slashes.
so you can do
rsync -a --exclude='Folder2/**.tar' Source/ Target
Note this is different from bash's globstar option where you would use Folder/**/*.tar.
I am trying to use include and exclude options in rsync to copy a directory structure, excluding most but not all of the subdirectories, based on a pattern in the directory names. But, it isn't working. It is trying to copy everything over instead of just the subfolders I want. Is my syntax wrong?
I have tried:
rsync -am --include='*/*/*MPRAGE*/' --exclude='*' /parent_directory/ /destination
Also:
rsync -am --include='*/' --include='*/*/*MPRAGE*/' --exclude='*' /parent/ /dest
MPRAGE is the pattern that is in the name of each folder I want copied. But these folders are three levels deep in the structure, and I want to keep the well-organized directory structure intact for these folders I want copied.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Right now I'm successfully running:
rsync -uvma --include="*/" --include="*.css" --exclude="*" $spec_dir $css_spec_dir
In a shell script which copies all of the files in the source directory, that are .css files, into a target directory.
I want to do the same for HTML files, but only where they are in a subfolder with the name 'template'.
So I'm in directory ~/foo, and I want to rsync where the --include="*/" only matches on subfolders with the name 'template'. So ~/foo/bar/template/baz/somefile.html would match, and so would ~foo/bar/baz/qux/template/someotherfile.html, but NOT ~/foo/bar/thirdfile.html
Although it looks a little bit strange, this works for me:
rsync -uvma --include="*/" --include="*/template/*/*.html" --include="*/template/*.html" --include="template/*.html" --include="template/*/*.html" --exclude="*" $spec_dir $html_spec_dir
This one works for me:
rsync -umva --include="**/templates/**/*.html" --exclude="*.html" source/ target
Were you looking for **? Here you have to be careful about choosing your exclude pattern, * won't work as it matches directories on the way. If rsync finds foo/templates/some.html, it will first copy foo, then foo/templates and then foo/templates/some.html, but before it gets there * already matched foo and nothing gets copied.
Here's what worked:
rsync -uvma --include="*/" --include="templates/**.html" --exclude="*" $html_all_dir $html_dir
My guess is, your format and mine probably accomplish the same thing. I know I tried about 20 different patterns before this one, and this is the only one that worked properly. I don't think I tried your format though :)