Re: Odd behavior in an exclude-file

2009-01-04 Thread Roy F. Cabaniss
On Monday 22 December 2008 03:38:20 pm Matt McCutchen wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:01 -0600, Roy F. Cabaniss wrote: rsync -avl --stats --progress --timeout=300 --exclude-from /home/foo/bin/exclude.txt /home /mnt/sdc2 Since there are, as with any backups, files I don't want to bother

Re: Odd behavior in an exclude-file

2008-12-22 Thread henri
Try putting some additional line breaks at the end of your file. I am not sure if this will solve your issues. Give it a go and report back if this resolves the issue. Hope this helps I decided the most secure way to deal with backup/firewall issues between my work and home was to encrypt

Re: Odd behavior in an exclude-file

2008-12-22 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:01 -0600, Roy F. Cabaniss wrote: rsync -avl --stats --progress --timeout=300 --exclude-from /home/foo/bin/exclude.txt /home /mnt/sdc2 Since there are, as with any backups, files I don't want to bother backing up I created an exclude file and stored it in my bin.

Odd behavior in an exclude-file

2008-12-19 Thread Roy F. Cabaniss
I decided the most secure way to deal with backup/firewall issues between my work and home was to encrypt a portable hard drive and make it my backup. Lug it back and forth and sync as appropriate. So I wrote myself a little rsync script which grabs all the files I think of as taking work to