User talk:N30N

rsync: relative paths in exclude patterns

Hi,

I don't think this is a good idea: for a full system backup, you need to exclude only the top-level directories. Using --exclude="tmp/*" instead of --exclude="/tmp/*" will exclude also the content of all directories named tmp inside the tree (e.g. /var/tmp/*, /home/user/tmp/* or whatever).

You may want to elaborate on your problem with "source files over a network protocol".

-- Lahwaacz (talk) 07:36, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

I had though about such scenarios but must have made a mistake when testing, because your are correct. Thanks for pushing the point.

-- User:N30N