I have a problem. I am trying to use rsync to copy all the .php files from my /var/www to another server, except for website1 and website2, so I created this command:
rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p 28' --relative --exclude={'website1.com','website2.com'} --include='*.php' --delete-during --backup --backup-dir=/mnt/usb/shares/me/ubuntu_backup/ --suffix=".""201911261032" /var/www root@myserver.mydomain.nl:/mnt/usb/shares/me/ubuntu/
I would like to see that all the .php files are being rsynced, but when I run this command, not only the .php files are being coppied, but also .jpg, .csv, etc.
How can I make this work?
--include really means "don't exclude"; everything is implicitly included to begin with, so --include is used to override a previous --exclude.
You want something like
options=(
-avz
-e 'ssh -p -28'
--relative
--exclude '*' # Don't transfer *anything* ...
--include '*.php' # ... except for the .php files ...
--exclude website1.com # ... in a directory other than website1.com ...
--exclude website2.com # ... or website2.com
--delete-during
--backup
--backup-dir=/mnt/usb/shares/me/ubuntu_backup/
--suffix=".""201911261032"
)
rsync "${options[@]}" \
/var/www \
root@myserver.mydomain.nl:/mnt/usb/shares/me/ubuntu/