rsync questions

[Paul Slootman]

On Thu 26 Mar 2009, gahn wrote:
> 
> I am trying to back up /export/home/* (all of users) on another machine but exclude a certain types of files. here is one of my tested exclude files:
> 
> /home/unwanted_dir
> 
> this one works. rsync successfully backed up other directories except the "unwanted_dir"
> 
> But how could I get rsync search the patterns of files in those user directories and exclude them?

Well, it tells you exactly in the manpage how to do it;
you've probably tried some things, it help help us to help you if you
say exactly what commands you have tried and what you want to happen.

Did you:
> Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
do the above?


Paul