Hello LQ,

I have an Rsync script as shown below;

rsync -avztpog --delete --include='/home/jmoore/webroot/dav_files/web/*' --include='/home/jmoore/webroot/gallery/' --include='/home/jmoore/webroot/public/' --include='/home/jmoore/webroot/sharing/' --exclude='/home/jmoore/webroot/*' -e "ssh -l root" root@192.168.1.1://home/jmoore/ /home/jmoore/

what I would like it to do is to exclude certain directories and include certain ones, now it seems to run ok kinda but it does not pull down any new files that I have added on the 192.168.1.1 server.

any help would be appreciated.

Add "--stats -i" to your switches and check the output?

a few things to note.

1. create an excludes.txt file and populate what you want and dont want with + -
2. root@192.168.1.1://home/jmoore/ is wrong, it should be: root@192.168.1.1:/home/jmoore

note the single / not double // this is not a URL you are connecting to for the ssh connection it is a file system pathway.

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I do not fully understand how the rsync --include and --exclude filters work, but I can tell you I have had much difficulty with them. In your case, I would guess the --exclude is over-riding the --include switches. Try running it with the -vv switch, which will tell you what each filter is doing, that is, how it acts on each file or directory. That may tell you why it is not making the transfer you expect.

Many thanks all for your help and comments

Hey All,

Still having issues my Rsync command will not exclude the directories that I have specified in the exclude files this is what I have

my exclude.txt

+ /home/./webroot/sharing/
+ /home/./webroot/public/
+ /home/./webroot/gallery/
+ /home/./webroot/dav_files/web/
- /home/./webroot/dav_files/*
- /home/./tmp/*
- /home/./webroot/*

my Rsync command

rsync -avvztpog --delete --exclude-from=exclude.txt root@192.168.1.2:/home/ /home/

any help would be appreciated