Hi everyone, I am trying to setup my backups using rsnapshot. I have a rather large and frequently changing /home/<user>/ that I want to backup. I don't want to backup the frequently changing directories (e.g. my downalods directory or temporary work directory). In other words I wanted to rsnapshot to backup _only_ the directories/files explicitly specified and skip everythign else. So I created a file ~/.rsync-filter with include rules like these, include_/.config/** include_/dir1/** include_/.gitconfig include_/.gitignore include_/.gitk include_/dir2/** Now say I have other files and direcotries like, ~/.oldconfig/ ~/dir2_i_dont_want/ ~/dir3_i_dont_want/ Calling rsync with -F works but it also backs up the other unwanted directory and files. How do I exclude them? The problem is I can't write explicit exclude rules as that would need to be updated every time something new is created (as I want rsnapshot to _not_ backup anything by default). I tried exclude_/* at the end of the filter rules, that made rsnapshot skip the explicitly mentioned includes like, include_/dir1/** include_/dir2/** The hidden files were backed up just fine though. Any ways of doing what I want? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
