[Dirvish] Include only 1 folder

[Shawn (Red Mop)]

On Friday 08 February 2008 04:32:28 pm Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Red Mop wrote:
> > On Friday 08 February 2008 09:22:52 am Red Mop wrote:
> >> On Friday 08 February 2008 08:54:04 am Jarkko Ypäjä wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> How can I exclude all the other foldrs in the system and include only
> >>> 1? <snip>
> >>
> >> Instead of trying to exclude all and include one, you can just have it
> >> back up the one folder.  <snip>
> >
> > I suppose there is a reason to do exclude all, include 1.  Say you're
> > backing up a rather large, though unchanging server over a slow link. 
> > Running init would take forever, so you can init with just one directory,
> > then slowly either add includes or remove excludes during the nightly
> > backups.  This is similar to a trick I learned from unison.
>
> rsync doesn't lend itself to includes very well.   It is usually
> recommended to try to come up with another solution.   Encourage those
> wanting to do includes to think outside the box.
>
> I do seem to remember something coming across the list about making
> includes more friendly.....hmm..
>
> Jarkko,
> Try
> http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2007-April/thread.html#1271
> and  http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2007-April/001294.html

make a directory specifically for dirvish, then mount -o ro,bind other 
directories into it to where the files actually are could work too.