[Sussex] Rsync and excluded files

[Andy Smith]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 12:42:13PM +0100, Bob Williams (SLUG) wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting rsync to read/act on my excluded files. The
> significant line in my script is
> 
> /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete
> --exclude-from=/home/bob/Documents/scripts/backup/excludedfiles
> /home/bob /home/pub/My_Pictures /home/pub/Shared_Documents
> /home/pub/HilsComputer /media/toshiba/backup.0
> 
> and the contents of '../excludedfiles' is
> 
> /home/bob/bacula
> /home/bob/.opera/cache4
> /home/bob/Utilities
> /home/pub/downloads
> /home/pub/vmware

The paths in the exclude file should be relative to what you're
syncing, i.e. if you're rsyncing /home/bob/ and want to exclude
/home/bob/bacula then the entry would be "bacula".

Incidentally, have a look at rsnapshot.  It's really nice for staged
snapshots using rsync.

Cheers,
Andy
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