rsync

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Mike, read the man pages, your syntax is wrong and it is clearly stated when 
you:
$ man rsync 

With that said, the syntax that you are concerned with in this instance is:
rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST 

A couple of details that may bite you:
Don't rely on '~' to address a directory on the destination box.
The '~' will be interpreted by the shell before the command is handed to 
'rsync' and, if the tree in both boxes don't match, you'll get a mysterious 
error that won't make sense until you realize that 'bash globbing' is 
handing your 'rsync' the wrong path' 

That is also valid for:
 --exclude=.*mozilla*
if '.*mozilla*' resolves to more than one path you will get interesting (and 
undecipherable) error messages.
I would do it as:
 --exclude='.*mozilla*' 

So, the 'proper' construction would something like:
$ rsync -vva \
    --exclude='/home/bmike1/Pictures/*' \
    --exclude='.*mozilla*' \
    --exclude='.*chromium*' \
        xbmc at 192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/backupdirectoryname 

And remember:
if you have any question,
you will get any answer...    :)
ET 

 


Michael Havens writes: 

> I want to have a backup of the hard drives of the computers in my house on
> the other computer. What I was doing before is making each ~ identical.
> Would the following command give me the desired effect? 
> 
> rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
> --exclude=.*chromium* ~/* *xbmc at 192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/*backupdirectoryname*;
> rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
> --exclude=.*chromium* xbmc at 192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/ *~/backupdirectoryname*
> *
> *
> is this correct? 
> 
> :-)~MIKE~(-: