Why this doesn't work??

[Matias Surdi]

Matt McCutchen escribió:
> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 23:52 +0100, Matias Surdi wrote:
> 
>>rsync -n -a -v --delete --timeout 120 --exclude '/sys/' --exclude 
>>'/tmp/' --exclude '/stuff/' --exclude '/mnt/' --exclude '/proc/' 
>>--exclude '/var/tmp/' --exclude '/usr/portage/distfiles/' --exclude 
>>'/home/msurdi/.thumbnails/' gaia:/ /usr/backups/gaia.0/
>>
>>The excluded dirs are still being included... what's wrong??
> 
> 
> If the excluded directories are already present on the destination,
> rsync will leave them alone; to have rsync delete them, use
> --delete-excluded.  If not, I'm not sure what to recommend; that sort of
> command works on my computer.  Keep in mind that rsync will not actually
> modify the destination until you take away the -n (--dry-run).

Thanks, I'm still trying to find the source of the problem.

But, another question: ¿Do you know how can I keep the "excluded" dirs 
as empty ones???

I mean, exclude /proc/* but in the destination location have an empty 
/proc dir.

Thanks.