[lug] excluding directories with rsync

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:43 -0600, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm trying to setup an rsync script to push data from a dev box to a live box.
> 
> The files live in different directories under /var/www
> 
> I need to exclude 5 of the directories and their content from being 
> propagated.
> 
> I've found a command to exclude files but not directories.
> 
> Does anyone know of a command or switch to do this?
> 
> Thank you,
> 

--exclude works fine for both files and directories.
For example, here is the command from a backup script I used to use:

ssh oberon rsync -az \
        --password-file=/root/rsync-password \
        --verbose \
        --verbose \
        --numeric-ids \
        --delete --delete-excluded \
        --exclude=/proc \
        --exclude=/sys \
        --exclude=/tmp \
        --exclude=/var/tmp \
        --exclude=/usr/tmp \
        / snapshot at green::snapshots/${newdir#/home/snapshots} \
        > /tmp/oberon.log 2>/tmp/oberon.errors </dev/null

-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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