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I want to rsync everything in /Volumes/B/, except for Cache directories, which I want to exclude globally. Also, I don’t want to rsync any other /Volume/
I have the following exclusion file:
+ /Volumes/B/***
- Cache/
- /Volumes/*
The first and 3rd line seem to work correctly, except that rsync also picks up all Cache dirs under /Volumes/B/… ( /Volumes/B/***/Cache/ )
What am I missing?
rsync reads the exclude file top down when traversing the directories.
When it visited the Caches dirs, rsync acted on the first matching pattern.
The first matching pattern was “+ /Volumes/B/*“, so Cache was included.
The rule is:
When having particular subdirectories, put them first.
Here ‘s a simple step by step explanation.