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Old 01-01-2013, 10:29 AM   #1
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Arrow how to rsync some dirs for backup?

I want to backup only some dirs from my home dir this is the command but didn't copy any one of them:
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rsync -avEr --exclude '*' --include '.mozilla' --include '.filezilla' /root/ backup
 
Old 01-01-2013, 10:41 AM   #2
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rsync -avEr --exclude '*' --include '.mozilla' --include '.filezilla' /root/ backup
Should that maybe be /backup ?
 
  


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