[Leaplist] thrilling rsync adventures

[Tom Foster]

Howdy guys,

rsync has been beating the stuffing out of me and laughing.

nothing that I thought I was excluding was being excluded, which resulted in an endless loop that would have just filled up the disk had I not noticed.

I just wasted a good bit of time looking online and at the man page for syntax clues without success.

my command looks like this:

rsync -azvPe --exclude=blah --exclude=blah / path/to/bu/

sort of.  I want to exclude

all isos anywhere
/media/
~/.VirtualBox/
/home/me/back2cd/
/dev/
/sys/
/proc/

plus anthing else you'd recommend.

thanks.

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-tom

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