how to act differently to different excludes file list?

I want to use rsync to backup my machine and I have two file lists. The first file list is common excludes file list, that I don't want to backup and restore such as /proc etc. But i have another file list for restoring. when restoring, I want to delete some files that are backed up before. that

how to keep user/group information when rsyncing to windows for restoring back to linux later?

I want to backup the who linux system to a windows system. The backup will not be used in windows and will only be used to restore to linux system later. So I want to know is it possible to use rsync to keep the user/group and other permission information in windows file system so I can restore

Re: how to keep user/group information when rsyncing to windows for restoring back to

Thanks for your reply. my problem is that if I use rsync to backup linux files to windows system, the user/group information will lost. how to keep these information when restoring to Linux? thanks You can then use rsync to make incremental copies of these directories which regularly change.