This option can't be added to both init and action, because the rsync
exclude mechanism is used to select the files to send, so would delete
all non-changed files. It's only relevant during init anyway, as after
that no excluded files will be made on the destination.
ssh._extra args are currently ignored and never actually appended
to the rsh arg. This PR addresses this issue (#402 which is closed
despite never being properly resolved)
As per the rsync docs: "This tells rsync to copy the referent of symbolic links that point outside the copied tree. Absolute symlinks are also treated like ordinary files, and so are any symlinks in the source path itself when --relative is used. This option has no additional effect if --copy-links was also specified."
It requires the official AWS CLI to be available, and that credentials
be set up through some external method, such as environment variables,
IAM profiles, the AWS SDK configuratin.
The AWS CLI sync exclude rules are not as powerful as the ones supported by
lsyncd. Hence, some of the do not translate perfectly. For example, '*'
(asterisk) matches slashes, while it does not in lsyncd. Hence it is a good
idea to only use exclude patterns for full directories, either by using a
trailing / (slash) or ** (double asterisk), as those will be correctly
translated.
An initialSync options is provided as a convenience, since it's not easy to
make sure exclusion rules match when doing it manually. It will *pull* from
the target bucket to the local dir (the opposite of the regular behavior)
then exit immediately.
