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 at backup13.gnax.net:/fooname/domain > rsync -avr - cache/ -e ssh /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/ > name at 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