Excluding folders with azcopy sync not working

Tim Paul 1 Reputation point
2021-10-29T03:04:32.227+00:00

Hello,

I originally posted this on Git but I think that was the wrong place. Perhaps this is the right place?

I'm running azcopy 10.10.0 on Windows 10.0.19043.1288. I am syncing files and directories from a QNAP NAS using:

azcopy sync "Y:\Documents\Organisational Change" "https://ocazurenas.blob.core.windows.net/ocazurenas/Organisational Change" --exclude-path="Y:\Documents\Organisational Change\Culture@Recently-Snapshot";"Y:\Documents\Organisational Change\Culture\Books@Recently-Snapshot"

however, the @Recently-Snapshot folders are still being synced so I am assuming I have the syntax wrong . Or am I missing something else or is the command just not working? The @Recently-Snapshot directories are hidden so I've tried excluding them using attributes but, again, I couldn't get that command to work either.

I'd really appreciate assistance, please. Thank you.

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  1. deherman-MSFT 33,216 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2021-10-29T19:16:08.803+00:00

    @Tim Paul I believe the issue you facing is mentioned in this GitHub issue. Try using the relative path like so: 

    azcopy sync "Y:\Documents\Organisational Change" "https://ocazurenas.blob.core.windows.net/ocazurenas/Organisational Change" --exclude-path="Culture@Recently-Snapshot;Culture\Books@Recently-Snapshot"

    Hope this helps. Let me know if you are still facing issues or have further questions.

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  2. Tim Paul 1 Reputation point
    2021-10-29T23:47:33.487+00:00

    Thanks for the note and suggestion @deherman-MSFT , however that doesn't seem to work either I'm afraid.

    Below are two selected lines from the log file. The first shows the command and the second shows a file (I've masked the name of the file with xxx) from the excluded directory being transfered. 

    2021/10/29 21:28:26 Job-Command sync Y:\Documents\Organisational Change https://ocazurenas.blob.core.windows.net/ocazurenas/Organisational%20Change --exclude-path=Culture@Recently-Snapshot;Culture\Books@Recently-Snapshot  
 

2021/10/29 21:28:26 INFO: [P#0-T#16] Starting transfer: Source "%5C%5C?\\Y:\\Documents\\Organisational Change\\Culture\\@Recently-Snapshot\\GMT+10_2021-10-14_0100\\Books\\xxxxxx.pdf" Destination "https://ocazurenas.blob.core.windows.net/ocazurenas/Organisational%20Change/Culture/@Recently-Snapshot/GMT+10_2021-10-14_0100/Books/x%x%20x%20x%20x%20-%20x%20x%20x%2C%20x%2C%20x%20x.pdf". Specified chunk size 8388608

    Your thoughts?

    Cheers

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