On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:03:31PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> Just a directory named /progs (/proc, /dev, /mnt). Man page sez:
>o if the pattern ends with a / then it will only
> match a directory, not a file, link or device.
Yeah, that's what it says. This i
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
j> rsync -ca --delete --exclude "/proc/" --exclude "/dev/" --exclude
j> "/mnt/" --exclude "/progs/" [EMAIL PROTECTED]::gates /data/gates
j> To clarify, would the above example exclude /progs and also
j> /data/progs/ or just the /progs directory from the root
Having a bit of trouble understanding the "exclude" option for the rsyncd
daemon
Does my example below exclude the /proc /dev /mnt and /progs from the root
directory "/"
or would it also exclude a directory of the same name if it is within the
tree I want to back up?
rsync -ca --delete --exclu