Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread gahn
Thanks! --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Harry Mangalam wrote: > From: Harry Mangalam > Subject: Re: rsync questions > To: rsync@lists.samba.org > Cc: ipfr...@yahoo.com > Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:05 PM > You use '--exclude-from=/the/exclude/file' > and that f

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread Harry Mangalam
You use '--exclude-from=/the/exclude/file' and that file should look like he extract below The following backs up all the users in my /home with the exceptions listed in it. The ones that have 'hjm' reference my home dir. the ones that have other users (hm/*) will completely skip those dirs.

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 26 Mar 2009, gahn wrote: > > I am trying to back up /export/home/* (all of users) on another machine but > exclude a certain types of files. here is one of my tested exclude files: > > /home/unwanted_dir > > this one works. rsync successfully backed up other directories except the > "un

Re: rsync questions

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Gonçalo Gomes wrote: > Dear rsync users, > i'd like to ask some questions about rsync, > > 1) i'm going to use rsync to upload backups to "backup machine", that > machine will hold only backups. > - does it keeps the ownership of the files if the user