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rsync folder exclusion tips
I just would like to share my reasearch on how to exclude a folder with rsync. The man pages uses the form FolderName/, but that excludes all folders with that name whereever they are stored on the b...
I've had some problems with rsync for a while. My previous settings stopped working. So I've done a bit of research. Here are the results.
Source is: "Volume: c"
Excluded paths on destination:
Works
Doesn't work
Kinda strange that absolute paths doesn't work (/c/media/BitTorrent/), but directories referenced with soft/symbolic links are accepted (/media/BitTorrent/).
In order to just view the symlinks:
Source is: "Volume: c"
Excluded paths on destination:
Works
media/BitTorrent/,media/Temp/-\ Name/Works
/media/BitTorrent/,/media/Temp/-\ Name/
Doesn't work
c/media/BitTorrent/,c/media/Temp/-\ Name/Doesn't work
/c/media/BitTorrent/,/c/media/Temp/-\ Name/
Kinda strange that absolute paths doesn't work (/c/media/BitTorrent/), but directories referenced with soft/symbolic links are accepted (/media/BitTorrent/).
In order to just view the symlinks:
#ls / -la | grep ^l
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