Re: rsync

> 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@192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/**backupdirectoryname
> And remember:
> if you have any question,
> you will get any answer...    :)
> ET