Hello !

I have a problem with the File::Rsync lib.

I try to transfer some log files, matching patterns from a remote /var/log, to my local machine.

Part of my script:

my %rsyncOptions = (
    'recursive' => '1',
    'times' => '1',
    'ignore-existing' => '1',
    'rsh' => '"/usr/bin/ssh"',
    'verbose' => '1'
    );

my $pattern = "\"+ mail.log*\"";
push(@includePatterns, $pattern);
push(@includePatterns, '"- **"'); #exclude everything else
$rsyncOptions{'include'} = \@includePatterns;
my $rsync = File::Rsync->new(\%rsyncOptions);

my ($cmd, $infun, $outfun, $errfun, $debug) =$rsync->getcmd(%rsyncOpti
+ons, 'src' => $sourceDir, 'dest' => $destDir);
print "Cmd: " . join(" ", @$cmd) . "\n";

my $sourceDir = "/var/log/";
my $destDir = "log/mail/";

$rsync->exec( {
    src => $sourceDir,
    dest => $destDir } );

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The getcmd sub give me the following line:

/usr/bin/rsync --ignore-existing --recursive --times --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh" --verbose --include="+ mail.log*" --include="- *" user@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/var/log/ log/mail/

So, connection, user, ssh key, dirs and files permissions are ok;

The problem is that the script transfers all my /var/log/ files... But, that's not all: I've tried to execute the command gave by the getcmd, and it works ! rsync just download the mail.log* files...

an idea ?

In reply to File::Rsync match pattern by rei

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