rsync - Sep 2002 - exclude option?

I'm completely confused by the exclude option, and I have by now tried for a
whole day to get the behaviour I want.

I'm trying to rsync from a W2K machine to Linux. Here's the rsync
command
line I'm using:

c:\rsync\rsync -av --delete --stats --exclude-from=exclude.txt "/documents
and settings/%WIN_USERNAME%/" x.y.com:rsyncdir

and here are (currently) the contents of my exclude.txt file:

---
+ /my documents*
+ /favorites*
+ /cookies*
+ /local settings/application data/microsoft/outlook/outlook.pst
- /*
---

I think it is obvious what I'm trying to do. I want everything in the 3
first directories shown and I want the outlook.pst file and nothing else.
With the various options I've tried I either get nothing at all or I get
absolutely everything underneath "/documents and
settings/my_user_name/".

It would of course be nice with just being presented with a solution, I
could then probably figure out how it works, but if somebody has the
patience to explain as well, that would be nice too.

Regards,
Bjorn Graabek

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Bjorn Graabek wrote:
> and here are (currently) the contents of my exclude.txt file:
> 
> ---
> + /my documents*
> + /favorites*
> + /cookies*
> + /local settings/application data/microsoft/outlook/outlook.pst
> - /*
> ---
I think the first problem is that you aren't using the right
capitalization.  Rsync does not ignore case, so it will not match
the named directories unless you specify them using the same
mixed-case that is returned by a directory list.

Another problem is that you don't specify a way to get into the
"Local Settings" dir to get down to the outlook.pst file.

Finally, the trailing '*' is not needed if you are matching the
directory name exactly, only if you are matching more than one
directory with each line.  I'm assuming you aren't, so here's my
suggested solution (you'll have to check if the mixed case is OK):

---
+ /My Documents
+ /Favorites
+ /Cookies
+ /Local Settings
- /*
+ /Local Settings/Application Data
- /Local Settings/*
+ /Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft
- /Local Settings/Application Data/*
+ /Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook
- /Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/*
+ /Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook/outlook.pst
- /Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook/*
---

All the extra rules with the "/Local Settings" dir is because I
assume there are other files in this hierarchy that you don't want
to copy or you just would have said "+ /Local Settings" and left it
at that.  These lines specify a path that the hierarchical descent
through the directories can follow that will get it to the lone file
that you want to send, and excludes all other files and directories.

..wayne..