RSYNC Exclusion?

carlosinfl · 10-04-2007, 11:38 AM

Guys,

I have the following RSYNC set in cron to run daily and it works great however there is one small detail I was wondering ....

I am telling RSYNC to take everything in my /home/cwilliams directory and sync it with an external USB hard drive mounted under /media/disk.

Here is the cron job...

Code:

# m h  dom mon dow   command
0 3 * * * rsync --delete -rdtvu /home/cwilliams/ /media/disk

As you can see if a file is /media/disk that is not present in my home directory, it deletes it from /media/disk.

But my main question is... how can I exclude the sync of the /home/cwilliams/Desktop directory? Is there a way to exclude the Desktop folder from syncing with /media/disk?

colucix · 10-04-2007, 11:48 AM

You may simply add the option

Code:

--exclude=/home/cwilliams/Desktop/

where the slash at the end is mandatory to let rsync correctly interpret the pattern.

dv502 · 10-04-2007, 11:56 AM

Add the --exclude=PATTERN option

for more options do

Code:

man rsync

carlosinfl · 10-04-2007, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

You may simply add the option

Code:

--exclude=/home/cwilliams/Desktop/

where the slash at the end is mandatory to let rsync correctly interpret the pattern.

I am just unsure where that fits into my command. I would not think at the end...right?

colucix · 10-04-2007, 06:13 PM

It can be anywhere in the OPTIONS section, for example

Code:

rsync --delete --exclude=/home/cwilliams/Desktop/ -rdtvu /home/cwilliams/ /media/disk