Thank you all for your input.
It turns out that the problem is a CRLF/LF problem. I'm including the explanation of
the problem/solution for others.
Using -vvv resulted in the listing of include/excludes as follows (I have only listed
a couple of lines to keep it short):
,exclude)de(!
,exclude)de
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:22:15PM -0500, Mike Lavender wrote:
>
> Command Line:
> rsync -avvvzl --stats --delete --delete-excluded
> --exclude-from=c:\rsync\includes.txt /cygdrive/c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]::LaptopBackup
First, get rid of the backslashes.
Second, drop verbosity to just -vv (not -vvv)
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:22:15PM -0500, Mike Lavender wrote:
> + /Databases/#Include /Databases & subfolders
Do you realize that this is specifying a file whose name starts with 4
spaces and contains a '#' character in it? If you want to put comments
into your include/exclude file, they mus
Dalton Harvie wrote:
> Newbie response:
>
> How about:
>
> rsync -avvvzl --stats --delete --delete-excluded
> --exclude-from=c:\rsync\includes.txt /cygdrive/c/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]::LaptopBackup
>
> as I've had problems with the --delete flag without using the * before
NOT advisable. Adding * is unn
Mike Lavender wrote:
> I'm having troubles with getting rsync 2.5.5 (CYGWIN version) to
> include/exclude files they way I expect it to. I have mulled over the
> list postings and man pages regarding this and I am either missing
> something or ... well I don' know.
>
> I have a drive with 12 folder
Newbie response:
How about:
rsync -avvvzl --stats --delete --delete-excluded
--exclude-from=c:\rsync\includes.txt /cygdrive/c/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]::LaptopBackup
as I've had problems with the --delete flag without using the * before (see
down the list a bit, "can't delete older file/directory li
