No time like the present to get stuck in to this :) I played with your script and I think I've found the answer...hopefully it works ;) Please correct me if I'm wrong!
I used your script as is (modified for my directory paths) and then tried your excludes.txt (again modified) It did the same thing as yours did. I made a new backup directory under my user account with the two files: ~mike/backup/script.sh ~mike/backup/example.txt I then removed the "/home" from the begining of the example.txt ie; #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *.iso - /mike/temp/* - /mike/downloads/* - /mike/Mail/* - /mike/Mail.old/* #----------------------------------------------------- I also added the "n" to the "-va" for a dry-run, verbose backup, and it seems to work as far as I can tell. I wondered if the excludes.txt just needs to reflect its relativity to the script and not the complete path of the file....?? #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE="/home/mike" EXCLUDE="/home/mike/backup/exclude.txt" DESTINATION="/home/mike/backup" #Destination Server #DESTSRV="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" #DESTSRV="" rsync -van --exclude-from=$EXCLUDE $SOURCE $DESTINATION #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope this helps :) Mike On Tuesday 12 April 2005 6:23 pm, Shawn wrote: > Thanks Mike. > > I was able to find other sites similar to that one - though I do like the > layout of that script better... :) It doesn't really explain the excludes > file too well though, but it's a decent start.. > > So, if I added "*.iso" to the exclude file, then all iso files would be > excluded. So far so good. But what if I want to exclude an entire > directory? Can I just do "/some/directory/*" ? This wasn't working for me > last night...
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