Trying to automate backup of the following local mounts/directories to
a usb drive (/mnt/usbbackup); here's what's in my include file:
+ /home/gravyface/www/*
+ /mnt/datadisk1/music/*
+ /mnt/datadisk2/projects/*
If I run the following, nothing happens, so I checked the man and I'm
not specifying
On Mon 29 Jun 2009, GravyFace wrote:
>
> I then tried the following, thinking "/" would be a common denominator
> in the paths in my include list:
> sudo rsync --progress -avz --include-from=/home/gravyface/backup.list
> / /mnt/usbbackup/localbackup/
>
> ...which then starts backing up the root p
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Paul Slootman wrote:
> The point you need to see is that everything is included by default, so
> specifying only include rules won't change anything. You also need to
> exclude the rest. The FILTER RULES section explains it pretty well,
> although you may need to g
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:43:02AM -0400, GravyFace wrote:
> sudo rsync --progress -avz --include-from=/home/gravyface/backup.list
> / /mnt/usbbackup/localbackup/
If you drop the '*'s from the lines in the file and switch to using
--files-from, that should do what you were expecting. You still ne