rsync help!

slack66 · 10-27-2005, 06:50 AM

hi
iam running rsync and i want to backup my entire disk to another disk but there are certain directory that i do not want to be copy(skip).....how do i tell rsync to ignore certain directory? :-) thks

homey · 10-27-2005, 07:40 AM

Hi,
If you just have one dir to exclude, use something like this...
rsync -avz -e ssh --exclude '/mnt/backup' /mnt/tech root@sony:/mnt

If you have several directories to exclude, put them in a list...
rsync -avz -e ssh --exclude-from=list.txt /mnt/tech root@sony:/mnt