On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 22:02 -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > I need to exclude a directory at the root of the sync tree. It's big, > so it's important that both the source and destination don't waste > time stating their contents. Should I use > > --exclude /dir > or > --exclude /dir/*** > > or something else?
I would recommend the second option as the surest, though I would quote the asterisks from the shell just to be safe. The first will also work if you're recursing from the root of the tree because it short-circuits rsync's recursion. Matt -- 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
