I've always found it useful to test my rsync syntax with a subset of the data or the --dry-run option first. Various OS implement rsync a tiny bit differently.
There are a lot of good rsync tutorials online which have working examples. Cathy -- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -----Original Message----- From: plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org <plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of David Bridges Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 1:15 PM To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree > Well, I'm the only human element involved and I have no problems. > When > synchronizing an entire directory there's never been an issue. What I > want to learn is how to exclude a specific subdirectory on the source > host. In an earlier reply I mentioned using a file to exclude things that is referenced on the rsync command line. I know that things can be excluded as an argument on the command line but I've been tripped up doing it like that in the past. I would suggest trying the following using your correct information of course. Create a file on the source node /home/rshepard/excludes.txt that includes the directory you want to exclude (in this case data no / needed), and possibly excludes.txt The following should do what you want as it works prefectly for me with my specific directories and excludes. rsync -arvP -e ssh --exclude-from='/home/rshepard/excludes.txt' /home/rshepard/ rshepard@salmo:/home/rshepard/ I have files with commands resembling the one above on several computers which have worked for me for years. Hope this helps -- David _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
