Re: Unwanted deletion of remote files

Either "ignnore" or "exclude" should do what you want.  "exclude" will delete 
them, "ignore" will leave them alone.  For added security, I have 
write-protected files that I don't want touched.

Doug L.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 6:44 am, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think I have found another problem with sitecopy. There are certain
> remote files that I would like sitecopy not to modify in any way (e.g.
> website access logs). If possible, I would like sitecopy to download them
> but not upload them, but I can't find any documented way to achieve that.
>
> Worse, I cannot make Sitecopy not delete them from the remote site. I have
> already lost all my access logs, due to my own complacency in running
> sitecopy -u.
>
> Sitecopy -l shows the following:
>
> chris@gcc(nm)$ sitecopy -l audit
> sitecopy: Showing changes to site `audit' (on ftp.marketaudit.co.uk in /)
> * These items have been added since the last update:
> site/gantt.js, site/audit.js
> * These items have been changed since the last update:
> site/moreinfo.html, site/index.html
> * These items have been deleted since the last update:
> archive/db-01.sql.gz, archive/db-02.sql.gz, archive/db-03.sql.gz,
> archive/db-04.sql.gz, archive/db-05.sql.gz, archive/db-06.sql.gz,
> archive/db-07.sql.gz, archive/db-08.sql.gz, archive/db-09.sql.gz,
> archive/db-10.sql.gz, archive/db-11.sql.gz, archive/db-12.sql.gz,
> archive/db-13.sql.gz, archive/db-14.sql.gz, archive/db-15.sql.gz,
> archive/db-16.sql.gz, archive/db-17.sql.gz, archive/db-18.sql.gz,
> archive/db-19.sql.gz, archive/db-20.sql.gz, archive/db-21.sql.gz,
> archive/db-22.sql.gz, archive/db-23.sql.gz, archive/db-24.sql.gz,
> archive/db-25.sql.gz, archive/db-26.sql.gz, archive/db-27.sql.gz,
> archive/db-28.sql.gz, dir:site/logs
> sitecopy: The remote site needs updating (33 items to update).
>
> I don't want it to touch the archive directory, nor site/logs, but I can't
> make it not delete all those files. My configuration is:
>
> site audit
>          server ftp.marketaudit.co.uk
>          remote /
>          local /home/chris/project/nm/remote
>          username xxx
>          password xxx
>          protocol ftp
>          exclude /bin
>          exclude /etc
>          exclude /lib
>          exclude /logs
>          ignore /site/logs
>          ignore /audit
>          ignore /archive
>          state checksum
>          checkmoved renames
>          permissions all
>
> I have tried "ignore" and "exclude" directives, and neither does what I
> want. Please help!
>
> Do I need to run "sitecopy -f" after modifying the configuration? It takes
> forever because it checksums each remote file.
>
> Cheers, Chris.

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