Mike, read the man pages, your syntax is wrong and it is clearly stated when
you:
$ man rsync
With that said, the syntax that you are concerned with in this instance is:
rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST
A couple of details that may bite you:
Don't rely on '~' to address a directory on the destination box.
The '~' will be interpreted by the shell before the command is handed to
'rsync' and, if the tree in both boxes don't match, you'll get a mysterious
error that won't make sense until you realize that 'bash globbing' is
handing your 'rsync' the wrong path'
That is also valid for:
--exclude=.*mozilla*
if '.*mozilla*' resolves to more than one path you will get interesting (and
undecipherable) error messages.
I would do it as:
--exclude='.*mozilla*'
So, the 'proper' construction would something like:
$ rsync -vva \
--exclude='/home/bmike1/Pictures/*' \
--exclude='.*mozilla*' \
--exclude='.*chromium*' \
[email protected]:/home/xbmc/backupdirectoryname
And remember:
if you have any question,
you will get any answer... :)
ET
Michael Havens writes:
I want to have a backup of the hard drives of the computers in my house on
the other computer. What I was doing before is making each ~ identical.
Would the following command give me the desired effect?
rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
--exclude=.*chromium* ~/* *[email protected]:/home/xbmc/*backupdirectoryname*;
rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
--exclude=.*chromium* [email protected]:/home/xbmc/ *~/backupdirectoryname*
*
*
is this correct?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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