Phil Dobbin
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:16:28 -0800
On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 18:26 -0500, Kevin Korb wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The two most common problems with excludes are: > > 1. Excluded paths are relative to the source path. So if you are > rsyncing /home/username and you want to exclude /home/username/Trash > the path to exclude is actually /Trash. > > 2. Mistaking the fact that the files are in the target because they > were already in the target for rsync actually transferring them. If > they were there before you ran rsync they will still be there after > unless you use --delete-excluded > > If you still don't see the problem lets start over. Show us your > command line, your excludes file, and an example /path/to/filename > that shouldn't be copied but is.
In a similar vein (apologies if this is hi-jacking somebody elses thread. Please let me know; if it is I'll start anew), I'm trying my first attempt at excludes. e.g. $ rsync -zav $HOME/phildobbin/ --exclude 'foo/' /destination/backup/ which works perfectly well but I'm struggling to find the right syntax to add about another half a dozen directories to the exclude list (e.g. Movies/ Music/ Virtualbox/ & so on). Any help appreciated. Cheers, Phil... -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html