Melinda Odom wrote:
Hi,
I am using rsync to backup from my server to a backup server that has been setup.
I can back up a directory with numerous files and folders and restore them but I have not learned how to "exclude" a specific folder from the rsync backup that runs via cron nightly.
I have tried these: rsync -av -cache/ -e ssh /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/ name@backup13.gnax.net:/fooname/domain rsync -avr - cache/ -e ssh /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/ name@backup13.gnax.net:/fooname/domain
I need to exclude these folders on every domain that is backed up: cache/ download/ pub/
I have also read the man pages but am not understanding.
How would I accomplish this?
Thank you!
Melinda,
If you have more than one directory that needs to be excluded, it's best to use the --excluded-from=<filename>, one of my exclude files contains:
/proc /dev /mnt /sys
I use rsync for very large systems, 2TB+ for backups, running hourly, daily and weekly backups. Works very nice.
HTH
Mark