[Leaplist] thrilling rsync adventures

[Kevin Korb]

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Oh, I should also correct my previous post just in case anyone is
thinking of attending...

The next GOLUG meeting which will be on rsync backups has been moved to
3/2 instead of the usual 3/3 due to room availability.

On 02/07/10 19:04, Kevin Korb wrote:
> 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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