[Leaplist] thrilling rsync adventures

Tom Foster tf at linuxceptional.com
Sun Feb 7 17:15:58 EST 2010


On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 04:28:48PM -0500, Kevin Korb wrote:

> 
> I highly recommend using
> - --exclude-from=textfile 
>

I tried that too.  

--exclude-from=excludes.txt

with

- /proc/
- /dev/
- */*.iso
...

but my patterns are wrong and I don't think rsync ever read the file.  is _that_ an absolute path?  

--exclude-from=/path/to/excludes.txt

-tom

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