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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070125/5b4e0666/attachment-0005.html>