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!

Mark Schoonover
IS Manager
American Geotechnical
V: 858-450-4040 - F: 714-685-3909 - C: 858-472-3816

"Stop the Earth!! I want off!!"
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@centos.org
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos


  

-- 
Ariste Software
2200 D Street Ext
Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 773-4523