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