I want to backup my Windows home directory using cygwin and rsync:
rsync.exe -vrt --delete --exclude=AppData "/cygdrive/C/Users/user1/" "/cygdrive/D/backup/"
As you can see I excluded the AppData directory.
Is it possible to include my Firefox bookmarks in the following path?
AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*/places.sqlite
The asterisk stands for a the profile name. It's not known because Firefox generates random names there.
Maybe it's possible using an exclude script with –exclude-from?
I know it's possible to copy the places.sqlite to another folder using power shell and then backup this folder.
But maybe it's possible directly with rsync.
Best Answer
This is pretty much a duplicate of rsync: Use filters to exclude top-level directory but include some of its subdirectories.
You need to include the
AppData
folder tree for searching to that you can findplaces.sqlite
, but exclude everything except that file.The
--prune-empty-dirs
stops the destination being filled with directories that would otherwise remain empty, so thatrsync
creates only the directories it needs to hold the files it's copying. (It's a little strange that this isn't the default action, but it isn't.)On my system,
places.sqlite
was underProfiles/*
rather thanProfile/*
so I've adjusted my suggested command accordingly. As you might expect, remove--dry-run
when you're happy with the result.