Re: openrsync --exclude only works locally

Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> On Oct 31 21:25:00, nathanael@dalliard.ch wrote:
> > Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> > > On Oct 31 19:10:52, nathanael@dalliard.ch wrote:
> > > > $ openrsync --rsync-path=openrsync -r --exclude text1.txt s1:test .
> > >
> > > That syncs the remote s1:test to the local ./test
> > >
> > > > $ ssh s1 ls test
> > > > text1.txt
> > > > text2.txt
> > >
> > > Of course text1.txt is still at the _source_.
> >
> > and in the local ./test folder:
> >
> > $ ls test/
> > text1.txt text2.txt
> >
> > it is excluded when done from local to local
> > it is excluded when done from local to remote
> >
> > it is not excluded when done from remote to local
>
> Are you sure it is not there from a previous sync?
> If you manualy remove the local ./test/text1.txt,
> will the next sync still put it there?
>
> remote$ mkdir /tmp/dir
> remote$ touch /tmp/dir/{foo,bar}
>
> local$ openrsync -av remote:/tmp/dir/ /tmp/ dir/
> Transfer starting: 3 files
> dir/
> dir/bar (0 B, 100.0% downloaded)
> dir/foo (0 B, 100.0% downloaded)
> Transfer complete: 180 B sent, 52 B read, 0 B file size
>
> local$ rm /tmp/dir/foo
> local$ openrsync -av --exclude foo remote:/tmp/dir/ /tmp/dir/
> Transfer starting: 2 files
> Transfer complete: 78 B sent, 21 B read, 0 B file size
>
> local$ ll /tmp/dir/
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hans wheel 0 Oct 31 21:30 bar

you are using rsync:
--rsync-path=program
Run program on the remote host instead of the default rsync.

nathanael