I discovered that if etc/ is in an exclude file ,anything with etc will
also be excluded,e.g. /usr/etc , /usr/local/etc ,and so on.Command i used:
rsync -av -e ssh / mike:/ --exclude-from=/home/michael/excludes_mike
--delete
and /home/michael/excludes_mike read at first
dev/
mnt/
proc/
tmp/
home/michael/Shared/*
home/michael/Incomplete/*
backup/
etc/
Later when i removed /etc from this list,changing it to
mnt/
proc/
tmp/
home/michael/Shared/*
home/michael/Incomplete/*
backup/
etc/HOSTNAME
etc/fstab
etc/inittab
etc/ssh/
etc/ssl/
etc/hotplug.d/
etc/hotplug/
every file with etc (not belonging to /etc )in its name was sync-ed,which
must mean they had been previously excluded.
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