Avoid erroring out on an ignored file

[dirkx]

If you have a remote directory with a file that is not readable to the rsync process; it rightly provides a non-zero exit code with a:

 rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open ".../foo.txt": Permission denied (13)

However if you rsync this with a '--exclude ./foo.txt' it will still error out with that error (even though it correctly syncs the directories skipping that file.

Would be ideal if rsync did not even try to read/open the file at all. As it is know to be ignored already during directory listing buildup.

[sudhackar]

--exclude=PATTERN        exclude files matching PATTERN

Does it work if you use --exclude foo.txt?

An example here

$ rsync -rv --progress rsync://remote-host/shared/test rsync


receiving incremental file list
created directory rsync
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/test/foo.txt" (in shared): Permission denied (13)
test/
test/bar.txt
              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=1/3)

sent 70 bytes  received 270 bytes  680.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1865) [generator=3.2.7]


$ rsync -rv --progress --exclude ./foo.txt rsync://remote-host/shared/test rsync


receiving incremental file list
rsync: [sender] send_files failed to open "/test/foo.txt" (in shared): Permission denied (13)
test/bar.txt
              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=1/3)

sent 82 bytes  received 267 bytes  698.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1865) [generator=3.2.7]


$ rsync -rv --progress --exclude foo.txt rsync://remote-host/shared/test rsync


receiving incremental file list
test/bar.txt
              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/2)

sent 61 bytes  received 126 bytes  374.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00