[support] drush archive-dump selected directories

[Tim Johnson]

* Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> [131205 16:08]:
> FYI: I am new to drupal, drush and PHP but am an experienced
> programmer in other areas. Am familiar and comfortable with the
> command line.
> 
> I use drush on both Linux and Mac.
> 
> I have a drupal site to archive, but there are many directories
> under the filesystem root which are not part of the site.
> 
> NOTE: This has happened because I use Hostmonster and add-on domains
> are "added on" under the site root.
> 
> I know that archive-dump has an exclude option and I could chain a
> couple of dozen 'excludes' but that's not nearly as 'elegant' as
> chaining seven 'includes' - which would be
> 
> includes, misc, modules, profiles, scripts, sites, themes
  Forgot to say : I have used rsync and sql-sync to do something
  similar, it does (I think) take only the site directories, but the
  downside is that one would have to have a local site built already
  to 'syn' to .....
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Tim 
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