I have read the man page about a dozen times, and still can not seem to get rsync to exclude a folder. I am trying to move my home movies from my server, to my media center, so I can schedule it weekly, to make sure all new home movies are uploaded, but the scheduling is not a problem(atleast not yet). Here is the command I have tried I am trying to exclude the folder jmovie. I have moved the exclude option to the end of the command too, and it made no difference. I tried asking Reddit, but did not get any usable answers there either.

The --exclude option uses a pattern not an absolute path or file name. Speaking of absolute, the program checks that pattern against relative paths based on the source directory. So I would try something like this:

It is a pattern though, so watch out that it does not cover more files or directories than intended.

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