I've installed rsync and am trying to back up my home folder to a USB hard drive.
My backup script looks like
My 'exclude' file looks like
I basically want to back up my home folder except the Movies/ directory. When I run the script, it's still backing up Movies/*. I've tried variations of 'rsync --exclude' like
none seem to work, Movies/ is backed up every time.
Any advice? Thanks.
My backup script looks like
Code:
#!/bin/bash
sudo /usr/bin/rsync -av --progress --delete --exclude-from /Users/rjm/.rsync/exclude --log-file=/Users/rjm/rsync/$(date +%Y%m%d)_rsync.log /Users/rjm/ /Volumes/MYBOOK500GB/backups/
My 'exclude' file looks like
Code:
/Users/rjm/Movies/
I basically want to back up my home folder except the Movies/ directory. When I run the script, it's still backing up Movies/*. I've tried variations of 'rsync --exclude' like
Code:
--exclude "/Users/rjm/Movies/"
--exclude="/Users/rjm/Movies/"
--exclude-from="/Users/rjm/.rsync/exclude"
none seem to work, Movies/ is backed up every time.
Any advice? Thanks.