I' attempting to use rsync to keep files in sync between two directories locally. The command I'm using in a script file is as follows:

rsync -rptgoiuqc --exclude '/home/louis/Documents/drupal.conf' /home/louis/Documents/ /home/louis/SynologyDrive/
rsync -rptgoiuqc /home/louis/SynologyDrive/ /home/louis/Documents/

When I run the above command I get the following message:

rsync: chgrp "/home/louis/Documents/drupal.conf" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1189) [sender=3.1.3]

Since I'm trying to exclude the file 'drupal.conf' in the first command in the script shouldn't just ignore the file and message not appear.

Thanks

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I guess you need to specify relative path (to src_dir) to exclude
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-exc...es-with-rsync/

The file that I'm trying to exclude is in the source path, the link that you provided is what I've been reading/using. I've tried it not using the absolute path and still is does not work. The rsync does work and it does also copy the excluded file which is what I don't want.

Any suggestion?

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