rsync questions

[gahn]

Thanks!


--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Harry Mangalam <harry.mangalam at uci.edu> wrote:

> From: Harry Mangalam <harry.mangalam at uci.edu>
> Subject: Re: rsync questions
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Cc: ipfreak at yahoo.com
> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:05 PM
> You use '--exclude-from=/the/exclude/file'
> and that file should look like he extract below
> 
> The following backs up all the users in my /home with the
> exceptions 
> listed in it.  The ones that have 'hjm' reference
> my home dir.  the 
> ones that have other users (hm/*) will completely skip
> those dirs.  
> the ones that have no user spec (*.o) will omit all obj
> files from 
> any subdir.
> 
> # use this command
> # sudo rsync --exclude-from=/home/hjm/rsync.exclude  -av
> /home \
> #    hjm at moon:/b/hjm/bongobak
> hjm/.VirtualBox/*
> hjm/.cx*
> hjm/.cpan
> hjm/code/*
> hjm/nco_test/*
> hjm/.kde/cache-bodi/http/*
> hjm/.google/*
> hjm/.googleearth/Cache/*
> hjm/.thumbnails/*
> hjm/nacs/osborne/gff*
> hjm/nacs/2sigma/audio/*
> hjm/.opera/cache4/*
> hjm/.evolution/*
> hjm/l_cc*
> hjm/IDV*
> hjm/code/SAS/*
> hjm/SAS/*
> hjm/.dods_cache/*
> hjm/nco_bm/*
> hjm/valgrind
> hjm/.local/share/Trash/*
> hjm/.ccache
> hm/*
> *.tmp
> *.gff
> *.chp
> *.rpm
> *.nc
> *.o
> *.rm
> *.mov
> *.deb
> *out
> *.iso
> 
> On Thursday 26 March 2009, gahn wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I got basic rsync working (not server mode). Basically
> it went to
> > another server via ssh, backed up subdireactories and
> stored on the
> > local server. But I am trying to use the feature of
> "exclude" and
> > could not get it working rigjt.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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