On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:43:02AM -0400, GravyFace wrote:
sudo rsync --progress -avz --include-from=/home/gravyface/backup.list
/ /mnt/usbbackup/localbackup/
If you drop the '*'s from the lines in the file and switch to using
--files-from, that should do what you were expecting. You still
Trying to automate backup of the following local mounts/directories to
a usb drive (/mnt/usbbackup); here's what's in my include file:
+ /home/gravyface/www/*
+ /mnt/datadisk1/music/*
+ /mnt/datadisk2/projects/*
If I run the following, nothing happens, so I checked the man and I'm
not specifying
On Mon 29 Jun 2009, GravyFace wrote:
I then tried the following, thinking / would be a common denominator
in the paths in my include list:
sudo rsync --progress -avz --include-from=/home/gravyface/backup.list
/ /mnt/usbbackup/localbackup/
...which then starts backing up the root
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Paul Slootmanpaul+rs...@wurtel.net wrote:
The point you need to see is that everything is included by default, so
specifying only include rules won't change anything. You also need to
exclude the rest. The FILTER RULES section explains it pretty well,
although
