Beginner help: Excluding directories by pattern

2011-12-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I apologize in advance for asking a beginner question, but I really could not figure this from the manual page. I want to copy some files with rsync, and not copy others. The stuff that I do not want to copy looks like this: System Volume Information/_restore*/RP* WINDOWS/Prefetch/* Documents

Re: Beginner help: Excluding directories by pattern

2011-12-18 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You want --exclude-from=file You can cut-and-paste those path patterns into that file just as they are. For the ACL errors you are probably writing to a filesystem that doesn't support those ACLs. On 12/18/11 13:58, Michael_google gmail_Gersten