rsync stopped working

2016-01-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
Running Debian 8.2, xfce 4.10, rsync 3.1.1-3. I just edited my backup script as follows: #The first line deletes extraneous files. The second does not and is used for normal backups. # rsync -vaHz --delete --exclude '/proc' --exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '/home/holtzm/Documents/*

Re: rsync stopped working

2016-01-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:38:51PM +0900, SATOH Fumiyasu wrote: > Hi, > > At Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:11:58 -0700, > Bob Holtzman wrote: > > Running Debian 8.2, xfce 4.10, rsync 3.1.1-3. I just edited my backup > > script as follows: > > Your backup script is broken.

exclude being ignored

2015-11-18 Thread Bob Holtzman
ile before I catch it and stop the process. Not being a coder, I'm at a loss as to how to begin attacking this problem. Any pointers appreciated. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To

Re: exclude being ignored

2015-11-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
the command 10-12 times and missed the omission of the space. I had been dinking around with it and inadvertently deleted the space. Added it and it's back to working. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omit

Re: exclude being ignored

2015-11-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 06:43:12PM -0500, Kevin Korb wrote: > If you use --exclude=pattern instead of --exclude patter those become > more obvious. Also, you wouldn't have turned 'media' into an > additional source parameter. You're right. Thanks. -- Bob Holtzman