On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 15:58, Marius Andreiana wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to rsync entire hdd nightly, Good on you. I use Mirrordir for local-local backup and rsync to disk to network backup > but want to exclude some > directories. I saw rsync has tar-like syntax for excluding and tried > various combinations, but it still includes them. rsync -av --progress --delete --exclude /usr/local/bbuser / /mnt/sda/ > For example: > > rsync -acSx --delete --exclude 'bbc1.9e-btf/' --exclude > '/tmp/' /mnt/sda/ /mnt/hdc > send_files failed to open /mnt/sda/usr/local/bbuser/bbc1.9e- > btf/tmp/combo.21192: No such file or directory > > Also tried --exlude 'bbuser/*/tmp/'. > > How could I exclude all /usr/local/bbuser ? > > Thanks, > -- > Marius Andreiana > Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania > http://www.galuna.ro -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 16:49:28 up 7:25, 5 users, load average: 1.06, 1.39, 1.71
