On 20/08/17 11:16, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
what is the correct phrase to
stop rsync from copying the cache folder?
Hard to say what you're doing wrong without an example.
It works for me.
$ find src | sort
src
src/bar
src/bar/file1
src/.cache
src/.cache/file1
src/file1
src/foo
src/foo/.cache
src/foo/.cache/file1
src/foo/file1
$
$ rsync -aciHAXS --exclude /.cache/ src/ dest
cd+++++++++ ./
>f+++++++++ file1
cd+++++++++ bar/
>f+++++++++ bar/file1
cd+++++++++ foo/
>f+++++++++ foo/file1
cd+++++++++ foo/.cache/
>f+++++++++ foo/.cache/file1
$
$ >src/foo/file2
$ rsync -aciHAXS --exclude /.cache/ src/ dest
.d..t...... foo/
>f+++++++++ foo/file2
$
$ find -name .cache | sorV
./dest/foo/.cache
./src/.cache
./src/foo/.cache
$
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Ralph
Thanks, from what you posted I managed to get it working, it is
basically my home folder I am backing up but I am trying to safe space
on my disk by simply syncing those folders in my home folder that I will
want if I lost my home folder on my main disk. I don't really need
.thumbnails and .cache which were two of the biggest space takers I did
not need.
To move this on slightly, once rsync has run I want compress the whole
home folders (it copies it to another folder then compresses for
storage), it is currently around 21gb but half of that is a video folder
that I have which is 10gb in size, how do I exclude a folder from tar? I
can see where you can choose files and patters *.ogg but the videos are
various formats so it would be simpler to exclude the whole folder? is
it as simple as --exclude=videofolder? Not sure I am reading the man
page correctly
Tim
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