rsync issue

[kevinwincott]

Hi

I'm trying to back up a server using rsync, the command I'm using is:

rsync -aAXv /* /mnt/nas/today --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,*/mnt/*,/media/*,/lost+found}

and

rsync -aAXv /* /mnt/nas/today --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,/mnt/*,/media/*,/lost+found}

However the folders in the exclude list are being synced. The commands work fine on an Ubuntu server and perform as expected.

What am I missing that's unique to FreeBSD?

 

[kisscool-fr]

Hi,

I'm not sure rsync in FreeBSD supports comma separated values.

Have you tried like this

[CMD=""]rsync -aAXv /* /mnt/nas/today --exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/tmp/* --exclude=/run/* --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/media/* --exclude=/lost+found[/CMD]

?

 

[wblock@]

The wildcards are not needed:

--exclude=dev --exclude=proc ...

The original form may take advantage of some feature of bash. The same should work on FreeBSD under bash or maybe even sh.

 

[phoenix]

Even better, stick your excludes into a text file, one directory per line, and use --exclude-from=/path/to/file instead of tonnes of --exclude entries on the command-line.

 

[chatwizrd]

Naw I like tons of --exclude lines better then a file

 

[jb_fvwm2]

Once I found the exclude file syntax that worked, I found it easy to use as one could name the exclude file depending upon the destination of the rsync...