On Tuesday 08 April 2008 17:58, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > 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... > I didn't see this until after I had followed up Jeff's suggestions, but thanks for trying to help. Anne