Re: rsync 3.0.4 under cygwin: problems with --exclude

2009-08-20 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:58 +0200, Alessandro Toso wrote: > I'm trying to backup a disk using rsync but I need to exclude some folder. > I'm using rsync 3.0.4 under cygwin on a winxp machine. > The script that I use is: > > # # > S

Re: --delete flag not working on cygwin rsync

2009-08-20 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 07:24 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:10:20PM -0400, Sharad K wrote: > > Everything works fine except the --delete flag. > > Does rsync output a warning about an I/O error, saying it is disabling > deletes? You can use --force if you're sure you want

Include a directory inside an excluded one?

2009-08-20 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
Hello, On my windows xp machine, with cygwin, I run rsync to backup important files on another drive (samba share, mapped on h:). It works fine. I currently use the following command line: rsync -rtv --del --delete-excluded --progress --iconv=ISO-8859-1,UTF-8 --partial \ --exclude "/Vide