Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m trying to backup a disk using rsync but I need to exclude some folder. I&#39;m using rsync 3.0.4 under cygwin on a winxp machine. </div><div>The script that I use is:</div><div><br></div>
<div># ---------------------------------------------------------------- #</div><div><div>SRCDIR=/cygdrive/d</div><div>LOGDIR=/cygdrive/f</div><div>BCKDIR=/cygdrive/f/Backup</div><div><br></div><div>rsync -auv --progress --delete --delete-excluded --log-file=$LOGDIR/`date +%Y%m%d`.log --exclude from=&#39;/cygdrive/f/.bak_exclude&#39; $SRCDIR/ $BCKDIR</div>
<div><div># ---------------------------------------------------------------- #</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>and my file where there is the list of excluded folders looks like:</div><div><br></div><div><div># ---------------------------------------------------------------- #</div>
<div><div>- /cygdrive/d/Software/</div><div>- /cygdrive/d/Intel/</div><div>- /cygdrive/d/Sysprep2003/</div><div>- /cygdrive/d/RECYCLER/</div><div># ---------------------------------------------------------------- #</div></div>
<div><div><br></div><div>The problem is that rsync is not skipping these folders. If I increase the verbosity level this is the output</div><div><br></div><div><div># ---------------------------------------------------------------- #</div>
<div><div>[client] parse_filter_file(/cygdrive/f/.bak_exclude,0,3)</div><div>[client] add_rule(-s /cygdrive/d/Software/)</div><div>[client] add_rule(-s /cygdrive/d/Intel/)</div><div>[client] add_rule(-s /cygdrive/d/Sysprep2003/)</div>
<div>[client] add_rule(-s /cygdrive/d/RECYCLER/)</div><div>sending incremental file list</div><div>[sender] make_file(.,*,0)</div><div>[sender] make_file(Documents,*,2)</div><div>[sender] make_file(Downloads,*,2)</div><div>
[sender] make_file(Intel,*,2)</div><div>[sender] make_file(Matlab_Fuctions,*,2)</div><div>[sender] make_file(Personal,*,2)</div><div>[sender] make_file(RECYCLER,*,2)</div><div>[sender] make_file(Scripts,*,2)</div><div>[sender] make_file(Software,*,2)</div>
<div>[sender] make_file(Sysprep2003,*,2)</div><div>[sender] make_file(System Volume Information,*,2)</div><div># ---------------------------------------------------------------- #</div></div><div><div><br></div><div>Am I doing something wrong?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help.</div><div>Cheers</div><div>Ale</div><div></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></div></div>