Melinda Odom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using rsync to backup from my server to a backup server that has
> been setup.
>
> I can back up a directory with numerous files and folders and restore
> them but I have not learned how to "exclude" a specific folder from
> the rsync backup that runs via cron nightly.
>
> I have tried these:
> rsync -av -cache/ -e ssh /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/
> name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/fooname/domain
> rsync -avr - cache/ -e ssh /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/
> name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/fooname/domain
>
> I need to exclude these folders on every domain that is backed up:
> cache/
> download/
> pub/
>
> I have also read the man pages but am not understanding.
>
> How would I accomplish this?
>
> Thank you!
Melinda,
If you have more than one directory that needs to be excluded, it's
best to use the --excluded-from=<filename>, one of my exclude files
contains:
/proc
/dev
/mnt
/sys
I use rsync for very large systems, 2TB+ for backups, running
hourly, daily and weekly backups. Works very nice.
HTH
Mark
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