On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:29 -0500, Mag Gam wrote: > I am trying to rsync a very large filesystem which is about 3TB, but > naturally I want to exclude a lot of things. However, I am really > struggling with excluding directories. > > SRC=/dasd/december/2008 #Notice there is no trailing slash > TARGET=/backup/december/2008 #Notice there is no trailing slash > > I want to exclude > > /dasd/december/2008/Data > /dasd/december/2008/Logs > /dasd/december/2008/Catalogs > > #NOTICE: I added a trailing slash for $SRC but nothing for $TARGET > rsync --exclude Data/** --exclude Catalogs/** --exclude Logs/** > --numeric-ids --archive --delete --delete-excluded --human-readable > --stats --verbose --progress $SRC/ $TARGET.0 > > For some reason Data Logs and Catalogs are still being synced.
Your rules should match all the contents of the Data, Logs, and Catalogs dirs, so the only thing I can guess is that the shell is expanding the whildcards. To avoid that, quote the rules: --exclude 'Data/**' --exclude 'Catalogs/**' --exclude 'Logs/**' Still, those rules may not be quite what you want. The directories /dasd/december/2008/{Data,Logs,Catalogs} themselves are not excluded; to exclude them, you can change the trailing ** on each rule to *** or just remove it and rely on exclusion of the directory short-circuiting the traversal of its contents (see the man page). Also, the rules will match directories named Data, Logs, or Catalogs anywhere under /dasd/december/2008 . You probably want to anchor them with a leading slash to match only the specific directories you listed. With both of these changes, the rules would be: --exclude /Data/ --exclude /Catalogs/ --exclude /Logs/ > BTW, I am using the hardlink method to keep snapshots. So before the > rsync I am cp -al from 0 to 1 and removing the oldest You might consider --link-dest=$TARGET.1 instead; it will save you a step and avoid corrupting the attributes of old backups. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html