[CentOS] excluding directories in rsync (SOLVED)

[Bill-Schoolcraft]

At Tue, 2 Oct 2007 it looks like Alfred von Campe composed:

> > I am trying to exclude a directory (and all file and sub-directories
> > under that directory) when using rsync.
> >
> > I have spent two days on google, but everything that I can find there
> > involves excluding individual files, not an entire directory.
> 
> Have you tried a simple "rsync --exclude remove_dir ..."?
> 
> Alfred
> 

I was tasked with backing up my /home/ directory but leave out stuff
that I don't need like:

/home/wiliweld/.firefox

and other "dot" file directories.

So, first I'll show you the crontab entry by using the "crontab -l"
command:

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[root at liam ~]-> crontab -l

1 1 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -avz /home/wiliweld/ /data1/home-wiliweld/ --exclude-from=/root/rsync-exclude.txt

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In my /root/rsync-exclude.txt file I have entries like this:

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[root at liam ~]-> cat /root/rsync-exclude.txt

- .adobe/
- .beagle/
- .config/
- .fontconfig/
- .fonts/
- .gconf/
- .gconfd/
- .gimp-2.2/
- .gnome2/
- .gnome2_private/
- .gnupg/
- .java/
- .kde/
- .local/
- .macromedia/
- .mcop/
- .mozilla/
- .ooo-2.0/
- .pork/
- .qt/
- .sane/
- .skel/
- .supertux/
- .thumbnails/
- .vlc/
- .vmware/
- .wapi/
- .xemacs/
- .xine/
- .zinf/
- .DCOP*/
- .inputrc/
- .lesshst/
- .realplayerrc/

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