Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> writes: > The command is > > rsync -auvz --delete-after --exclude-from=/home/anne/rsync_skiplist_mail.txt /home/anne/Maildir/ /Data3/anne/Maildir/ The roots are the Maildirs themselves, so it should not be necessary to re-specify them in the exclude list. > where rsync_skiplist_mail.txt says > > *~ > .[a-z]* > .[A-Z]* > Maildir/.INBOX.Bugs/ > Maildir/.Trash/ I would use instead: /.INBOX.Bugs/ /.Trash/ Not sure what the others are supposed to match... > Comments, please? Hope this helps, -- Nicolas