I'm new to rsync and I'm trying to do a backup of my home directory, but I've a problem here. I'm not able to select the directory that I want to backup and exclude those I don't want to. I've googled a lot and I've also searched the rsync mailing list archive but without success, so I hope you can help me. Please forgive me if this is a trivial question.
Here it is a sketch of my home directory:
$HOME ---|
|--- foo/
|...
|--- Library/|
|--- bar/
|--- ...so there are a lot of dir in my home some of them should be backuped some not. This is not a problem, I can get it using --exclude. The problem is the Library/ dir, because it contains a lot of directory that I don't want to backup and only one (bar) that I want to backup with all its sub-tree.
I've tried something like:
rsync -a --include "~/Library/bar/" --exclude "Library/" source target
but it doesn't work. Any suggestion?
Thanks, Andrea.
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