Always beware of hitting /dev and /proc with anything... place them in your
excludes.
Sometimes... tickling things in those directories can give you effects
worse than giggles? But you want the directory structure (if not the files)
in your backups... right?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:05 AM, James Rogers <wa...@preternatural.net>
wrote:
> I always use an exclude file. And I sync different exclude files between
> various servers.
>
> I would put my excludes in a file.
>
> My commandline:
> rsync -aHz --delete --delete-excluded --force
> --password-file=/etc/pootypoo.pwd --exclude-from=/etc/rsync.exclude rsync://
> blarg.yashakarant.com/hootyhoo /archivea/blarg_backup
>
> My /etc/rsyncd.conf (on the pushing/pulled server being backed up):
> ------------------------------------------
> # /etc/rsyncd.conf
> #
> # motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
>
> read only = true
> uid = root
> gid = root
> auth users = root
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.pwd
>
> # Allow root access from primary backup servers,
> # secondary backup servers, local nets.
> [hootyhoo]
> path = /
> hosts allow = 192.168.122
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> My /etc/rsyncd.pwd (on the pushing/pulled server being backed up):
> $cat /etc/rsyncd.pwd
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> root:@#$%sadf15H^
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> My /etc/rsync.exclude from the client pulling the rsync:
> $cat /etc/rsync.exclude
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> /mnt/*
> /archive*/*_backup/
> /tmp/*
> /dev/*
> /proc/*
> /home/CDs/Linux/Wine/wine-1.7.37/*
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dig? You should use SSH as your shell for rsync so that your connections
> are encrypted. This is only for a local, trusted network, as all transfers
> will be in compressed cleartext. Right?
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Chris Schanzle <schan...@nist.gov> wrote:
>
>> On 03/07/2015 06:32 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>
>>> From: "ToddAndMargo" <toddandma...@zoho.com>
>>>> To: "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS" <SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov>
>>>> Sent: 7. March 2015 05:40:43
>>>> Subject: Re: need rsync exclude help
>>>>
>>>> --exclude='{wine-*,wine-1.7.24}' /home/CDs/Linux /mnt/MyCDs/.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not real certain that the {} thingy works correctly.
>>>> Anyway, I only needed 'wine-*'
>>>>
>>> That seems redundant in this case. You can always test such expansions
>>> using 'echo'
>>>
>>> $ echo {wine-*,wine-1.7.24}
>>> wine-* wine-1.7.24
>>> $ echo wine-{1.7.24,package-1.2.3}
>>> wine-1.7.24 wine-package-1.2.3
>>>
>>>
>> But note no expansion occurs by the shell when surrounded by single
>> quotes:
>>
>> $ echo -exclude='{wine-*,wine-1.7.24}'
>> -exclude={wine-*,wine-1.7.24}
>>
>> Rsync may do something with the braces, but not the shell, in this case.
>>
>
>
