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OS6.1.6 - RSYNC does not accept any wildcards
FrontView in OS 6.1.6 is refusing to allow me to type any wildcards in the "File and directory name" to exclude box. According to the rsync documentation, I should be able to pass it the * wildcard...
Wow, what an awful design decision. More and more, OS6 impresses me less and less.
If you were backing up to a local share or USB/eSATA drive, you could do this to fool the system into inserting an "exclude" option before the source directory:
Source:
Type: remote
Name: remote: Rsync Server
Host: --exclude '.[!.]*' Name_Of_Your_NAS (note, btw, that your " .* " wildcard isn't the best way to exclude hidden files and directories)
Path: Your_Source_Path_With_No_Leading_Or_Trailing_Slashes
Destination:
Type: share
Name: Your_Destination
Path: Your_Path
But if you want to backup to a remote rsync server, I don't see a way to get the "exclude" option into the right spot in the command line.
If I were in your position, I'd give up on the toy backup interface and just SSH into the box and manually set up a cron job to do the backup. Or buy an OS4 device on Ebay.
If you were backing up to a local share or USB/eSATA drive, you could do this to fool the system into inserting an "exclude" option before the source directory:
Source:
Type: remote
Name: remote: Rsync Server
Host: --exclude '.[!.]*' Name_Of_Your_NAS (note, btw, that your " .* " wildcard isn't the best way to exclude hidden files and directories)
Path: Your_Source_Path_With_No_Leading_Or_Trailing_Slashes
Destination:
Type: share
Name: Your_Destination
Path: Your_Path
But if you want to backup to a remote rsync server, I don't see a way to get the "exclude" option into the right spot in the command line.
If I were in your position, I'd give up on the toy backup interface and just SSH into the box and manually set up a cron job to do the backup. Or buy an OS4 device on Ebay.
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