Hey guys, Thanks for your input! Both examples you gave worked, and I'll do some reading on the suggested subjects!! Just a heads up that it worked. I appreciate the clarification! Thanks, Tim On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/08/2015 10:12 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > >> I'm trying to do an rsync of the entire /var directory, but exclude just >> the /var/www directory. >> > ... > >> rsync -avzp --exclude-from=/var/www /var/ /mnt/var/ >> > > --exclude-from takes a filename as an argument. That filename is expected > to contain a list of patterns to exclude. > > rsync -avzp --exclude=/var/www /var/ /mnt/var/ >> > > If your exclude pattern begins with '/', then it matches a filename > immediately within the transfer root. So in this case, "/var/var/www". > > Read the "FILTER RULES" and "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" sections of > the manual. > > Try: > > rsync -avzp --exclude=/www /var/ /mnt/var/ > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B