On Thursday 25 January 2007 17:52, ][ wrote: > I should have said I was trying to backup the /home directory, although > the exclude list hinted so. I was trying to cut the craps, not bring along > a life long story, but apparently I trimmed too much. :-) Hi Tong, There are seldom any dot dirs at other levels. If it's safe to ignore dot dirs at all levels you can use: rsync -a --exclude='.*/' /home/ target --Mike Bird