Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:19:34 -0500 From: Jay Hall <JHALL@SOCKET.NET> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rsync include and exclude Message-ID: <99D3E0B6-09CA-453C-A964-AA95D4A6B35C@SOCKET.NET>
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I am using rsync to backup some information and I am having some problem with including and excluding directories. I want to include everything in the user's mail directory and everything in the user's documents directory. Everything else should be excluded. And, it is possible to have multiple users on a single computer. Following is what I am using for my include/exclude patterns. + /Users/*/Library/Mail/ + /Users/*/Documents/ - /Users/*/Documents/* - /Users/*/Library/* This gives me close to the desired result. However, there are some extra files included which I do not need to backup which are stored in /Users/username directory. If I add -/Users/*, no files are backed up. After reading the man pages and several examples, I thought I had a handle on this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jay
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