Kevin Moschallski wrote:
Hi i tried to use rsync to backup my remote server.I want to exclude folder like /var /proc ... .I use --exlude-from=/etc/rsync/excludes the file looks like this:
- */var/* - */proc/*
etc.
My problem is that i run vservers on this machine and i don't want that the folder like /proc in this vservers are backuped how can i exclude all paths wich contain such foldernames?
When using rsync to maintain incremental backups significant space can be saved on the backup server by excluding directories that have non-critical or transient data such as /tmp, /proc, /mnt, /cdrom, object and backup files, and caches. The problem is getting rsync to include the directory name but exclude its contents, a condition not clearly covered in rsync(1), EXCLUDE PATTERNS.
I use a separate backup server and pull from LAN clients but any model
should work. To test, add '-n -vv' to your rsync command and grep for exclude and include statements. Feedback: rsync at nsr500 dot net.
Remote client example: rsync -nvva --stats --delete --exclude-from=<file> -e ssh \ <client>:/ /<rsync_dir>/<client>/ | egrep '^excl|^incl'
The following rsync exclude file works on my RH 7.3 (2.4.23) and RH 6.2 (2.2.25) based systems for rsync 2.5.4. You may want to edit to suit your specific needs.
### BEGIN rsync exclude file ### directory entries, no directory contents ### tmp, anywhere in tree ### + tmp/ - **/tmp/** ### transient, from root (/) ### + /proc/ - /proc/** + /mnt/ - /mnt/** + /cdrom/ - /cdrom/** + /tmpfs/ - /tmpfs/** ### cache, anywhere in tree ### # mozilla + Cache/ - **/Cache/** # ccache.samba.org + ccache/ - **/ccache/** + .ccache/ - **/.ccache/** # others + cache/ - **/cache/** + xover-cache/ - **/xover-cache/** ### obj ### # kernel - usr/src/**.o # special library .o (may be RH specific?) + usr/*/lib/**.o + usr/lib/**.o # all others - *.o ### backup ### - *~ ### END rsync exclude file
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