Re: rsync problem
On 2009-07-28 09:35 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 2009-07-28 00:59, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive
>>> using a script:
>>>
>>> rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso'
>>
>> Look *very* *carefully* at this line.
>>
>>> --exclude '/media' / /media/disk/laptop
>>
>> and see how it differs from this line.
>
> If you mean the space between "--" and "exclude '*.iso" that's
> obviously a screw up *but* it works.
Not really, it causes all following arguments to be treated as filenames
rather than options. This is likely to cause errors (because files
named 'exclude', '*.iso', and '--exclude' probably do not exist), but
since you've used the -v switch, the error messages drown in the list of
files that are successfully transferred.
> It's the "-exclude '/media'" that's the problem.
No, without the previous '-- ' that would have worked.
Sven
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