[CentOS] exclude directory from rsync
Gordon Messmer
gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 05:45:57 UTC 2015
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/
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