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 SATOH Fumiyasu
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. > #The first line deletes extraneous files. The second does not and is used for > normal backups. > > # rsync

Re: rsync stopped working

2016-01-20 Thread Joe
I'm not a whiz at this, but a couple of things look odd. 1) Your exclude file is *probably* in /home/holtzm - not in /holtzm 2) I don't think your source should be /. (although it might be right - but it looks like rsync doesn't like it). I think that /. ought to be the same as / . Usually i

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. You've got me confused. The scr