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I use the following command successfully
rsync -e 'ssh' -avr [email protected]:/home/mikrotik /bck/mikrotik/
How can I add date filter to this command? I would like to sync only files that are newer than n days from remote dir [email protected]:/home/mikrotik to local dir /bck/mikrotik/
Unless you intentionally delete files periodically from /bck/mikrotik that are still present on the source system, or you have many thousands of files and you're seeing a time impact while rsync skips the files it's already transferred, your date filter shouldn't be necessary.
However, having said that you can use find to generate the set of candidate files for transfer. Here we're considering only files that have been created/modified within the last seven days:
ssh -n [email protected] 'cd /home/mikrotik && find . -type f -mtime -7 -print0' |
rsync -av --files-from='-' --from0 [email protected]:/home/mikrotik /bck/mikrotik/
If you don't have a version of find that supports -print0, replace it with -print and remove --from0 from the rsync. The difference is that you then won't be able to copy files containing an embedded newline in their name
rsyncalone. BTW, you don't need-e sshas SSH is the default. And-ris already activated by-a, so you can drop that as well./bck/mikrotikthat are still present on the source system, or you have many thousands of files and you're seeing a time impact whilersyncskips the files it's already transferred, your date filter shouldn't be necessaryfind -mtime -7as a filter before the copy process to get files created/modified during the last 7 days.