excluding directories from rsync

[Ow Mun Heng]

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
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