how to exclude directories in grsync

Tyro65 · 03-06-2022, 04:41 AM

Will the following work to exclude directories?

In Grsync's Advanaced Options, I have entered the command:
--exclude-from="/home/stan/.grsync/exclude.txt"

My file, exclude.txt, contains:
dev
.cache
proc
sys
media
mnt
run
tmp
home/stan/Downloads
home/stan/Documents/ArcaNoae
home/stan/Pictures
home/stan/snap
home/stan/VirtualBox VMs

Thank you for your help.

pan64 · 03-07-2022, 02:31 AM

you can definitely try it, but without other setting/arguments it is meaningless.
You can always try dry-run to check your option(s) without actually executing rsync

computersavvy · 03-08-2022, 10:16 AM

When using rsync I have found that the excludes always seem by default to require a path relative to the starting folder. Thus in your case, if you are in your home folder which appears to be /home/stan the parts in the exclude.txt file that begin with '/home/stan/' may need that leading part to be removed. Otherwise it should work, and as stated you can do a dry run to test it.

Tyro65 · 03-08-2022, 04:38 PM

It's sounds like I'm not AWAY off track, so --yes-- I'll keep trying.
You'll get a chuckle out of this one: In one of my tries, grsync copied only the directories that were listed in my "exclude" file. I wish I had made note of what I did in that one.