rsync with --exclude files

[Leaw, Chern Jian]

> HI,
> 
> I'm trying to exclude some files & directories from a filesystem which I
> would like to copy to a different site. I did:
> 
> # rsync -avz --exclude-file=/fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt
> /fs22/a/circuit_design   mickey.willow.com:/cpu/store/design
> 
> where file /fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt  contains the following
> directories and files to be excluded from  /fs22/a/circuit_design    :
> # cat /fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt
> /fs22/a/circuit_design/file1
> fs22/a/circuit_design/file2   
> fs22/a/circuit_design/dir1
> 
> I'm invoking rsync from a machine named winnie.willow.com to transfer
> files/directories in /fs22/a/circuit_design to
> mickey.willow.com:/cpu/store/design.
> However, it still copies all files or directories in the filesystem
> /fs22/a/circuit_design  to  mickey.willow.com:/cpu/store/design. It should
> not include the files/directories mentioned in the
> /fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt file.
> 
> I've tried with   the following for excluding just 1 file or directory and
> it works:
> # rsync -avz --exclude=/fs22/a/circuit_design/file1
> /fs22/a/circuit_design   mickey.willow.com:/cpu/store/design
> 
> It does not however work when I did the following for excluding >1
> file/directory: 
> rsync -avz --exclude=/fs22/a/circuit_design/file1
> --exclude=/fs22/a/circuit_design/file2   /fs22/a/circuit_design
> mickey.willow.com:/cpu/store/design
> 
> I was wondering if this should be the way to rsync a filesystem, excluding
> some files/ directories?  
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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