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As I wrote before, I’ve been using rsync to update my blog entries between my laptop and web host. I finally got around to debugging a problem I had with my previous shell script that allowed me to download a referrer.log at the same time I uploaded my blog entries. It ended up that on second and subsequent uses, the symlink to referrer.log on the webhost got overwritten with the actual file that was on my laptop. So I added an exclusion of *.log going from my laptop to the webhost. Here’s the updated script:

#! /bin/sh
rsync -Cavz -e ssh --delete --exclude="*.log" \
/Users/gvaughn/Sites/gigavolt.net/blosxom/ \
userid@webhost.com:/WebSite/gigavolt/blosxom/

rsync -urptgovLz -e ssh --copy-unsafe-links \
userid@webhost.com:/WebSite/gigavolt/blosxom/ \
/Users/gvaughn/Sites/gigavolt.net/blosxom/