On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 12:43:51 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Em 19/01/2025 08:57, David escreveu:
> > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 at 02:51, Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > time sudo rsync -aHSxvvv --human-readable --delete --numeric-ids --
> > > info=progress2,stats2,name2 --
> > > exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media
> > > /*","/lost+found"} /media/user/DRIVE1/ /media/user/DRIVE2/ ; date
> >
> > In fact the manpage says: "--exclude options take one rule/pattern each",
> > as I have shown above, which is not what you have.
>
> That's a shell feature, it will expand to multiple --exclude options.
It's called brace expansion, if you're looking for it in the bash manual.
In this case, it could be written more concisely:
--exclude=/{dev,proc,sys,tmp,run,mnt,media}/\* --exclude=/lost+found
The only character that needs to be quoted is the *, so there's no
need to include all those extra double quotes. The starting and ending
slash, and the ending *, are common to all the patterns except for
/lost+found, so those can be moved outside of the braces. Then, since
> And for those specific exclusions (except /lost+found), --one-file-system is
> probably even better, unless there is a second filesystem mounted somewhere
> inside /media/user/DRIVE1 (which seems unlikely).
They might have separate /var and /usr or something. Who knows.
