Charles Curley wrote:
I'd like to run an rsync command to do backups, with an exclude
pattern. I can build what looks like a perfectly good command, echo
it, then run it. But the exclude pattern is ignored. However, if I
copy the echoed command line and execute it directly, it works and the
exclude pattern is respected.
Something like:
# options to feed to rsync
opts="-va --exclude '*~' --delete --delete-excluded"
....
cmd="rsync $opts $internal$back/ $external$back"
echo $cmd
$cmd
When I do this, I always stick the ignore patterns in a file and use the
--exclude-from=myfile.txt option. It's the only way I've found to make
it behave consistently.
--Dave
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