Excludes not working

[Mike Rubel]

Bart Brashers wrote:
> ... I mount them using samba (to avoid having to install the
> cygwin version on each box) then run (using rsync 2.5.2 run from crontab)
> 
>  rsync -vuaz --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/root/bin/rsync.exclude \
>    --modify-window=2 /mnt/pc/machine/share /backup/machine/share
> 
> It works like a charm, except for some excludes that won't work -- rsync
> still copies the files.  Here's my exclude file:

>  /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music
 ...

Hi Bart,
I'm not an expert with rsync, so someone please correct me if I've got
this wrong, but I think the way to exclude /mnt/pc/machine/D/Music would
be like this:

  /Music/

Otherwise it's looking to exclude:

  /mnt/pc/machine/share/mnt/pc/machine/D/Music,

which of course doesn't exist.

Mike