piping find to rsyncrypto

Question

I am setting up rsyncrypto to create a backup of my user directory. I read that to exclude directories I need to exclude with find and pipe to rsyncrypto.

I am trying to exclude all .svn directories from getting encrypted and synced.

Here is the find command I'm using. I don't see any .svn directories in the output:

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find ~/Documents -type d ( -name .svn ) -prune -o -print

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But when I pipe the output to rsyncrypto I see lots of .svn directories getting encrypted.

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find ~/Documents -type d ( -name .svn ) -prune -o -print | rsyncrypto -vc --trim=3 --filelist - /tmp/Documents/ Documents.keys backup.crt

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Can someone help me rewrite the command to exclude from rsyncrypto any files/folders that have .svn in their path?

Answer 1

Your original find command prints all directories except for those under a .svn directory, in particular it prints ~/Documents. Experimentally, rsynccrypto recurses into all existing directories in a filelist, even though (like you, I think) I understand the documentation to say that it should only recurse into directories with a / appended.

So you need to print only files that are not directories. This means you must restrict -print with -type f (to back up only regular files) or ! -type d (to back up all non-directories, including symbolic links).

find ~/Documents -type d \( -name .svn -o -name .DS_Store \) -prune \
              -o \! -type d -print

Note that this won't back up the modification time and ownership of directories, or empty directories. This will include empty directories as well:

find ~/Documents -type d \( -name .svn -o -name .DS_Store \) -prune \
              -o \! -type d -print \
              -o -type d -empty -print