[CentOS] Limiting files when using rsync

[Todd Cary]

Mark -

Thanks!  That did it.

/usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/

My next step will be to brush the dust off of my Perl book and write a 
crontab script to backup nightly.

Question: I may not be using the term "backup" absolutely correctly.  
The destination server is a "standby" server.  This is if the source 
server fails, all I have to do is change the router to point to the 
standby server.  These are in a home office and I do not consider myself 
a system administrator; just someone who knows enough to keep the server 
running (it's main task is FTPing).  Do you have any suggestions about 
using rsync as I am doing?

Todd

Mark Schoonover wrote:
> Todd Cary wrote:
>   
>> I use the following command to sync the home directory on the two
>> computers, however I would like not to send the "dot" files e.g.
>> ".ssh".  Can that be done, and if so, how would I construct the
>> command line?
>>
>> /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/
>>
>> Many thanks....
>>
>> Todd
>>     
>
> Todd,
>
> 	I'm pretty sure you need to --exclude '.*' on the command line, buh
> I usually put all my excludes in a file and --exclude-from=rsync.excludes.
>
> Thanks!
>
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