[Leaplist] thrilling rsync adventures

[Kevin Korb]

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The --exclude-from=file file can be in any directory and you can specify
it with a full or relative path.

- - /proc/
- - /dev/
Those should both work.  Those are saying exclude any directory named
proc or dev in the root of the source (which is /).

- - */*.iso
should just be:
- - *.iso

On 02/07/10 17:15, Tom Foster wrote:
> 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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