rsync - Jan 2005 - Help for a newbie.

Hi all,
I'm new to rsync and I'm trying to do a backup of my home directory, 
but I've a problem here. I'm not able to select the directory that I 
want to backup and exclude those I don't want to. I've googled a lot 
and I've also searched the rsync mailing list archive but without 
success, so I hope you can help me. Please forgive me if this is a 
trivial question.

Here it is a sketch of my home directory:

$HOME ---|
          |--- foo/
          |...
          |--- Library/|
                       |--- bar/
                       |--- ...

so there are a lot of dir in my home some of them should be backuped 
some not. This is not a problem, I can get it using --exclude. The 
problem is the Library/ dir, because it contains a lot of directory 
that I don't want to backup and only one (bar) that I want to backup 
with all its sub-tree.

I've tried something like:

rsync -a --include "~/Library/bar/" --exclude "Library/"
source target

but it doesn't work. Any suggestion?

Thanks,
  Andrea.

On Jan 25, 2005, at 14:22, Andrea Riciputi wrote:
> but it doesn't work. Any suggestion?
Try putting a * in your exclude expression: "*/Library/*"

-- 
Rick

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:22:57PM +0100, Andrea Riciputi
wrote:
> rsync -a --include "~/Library/bar/" --exclude
"Library/" source target
Read the section of the man page on how excludes are anchored to the
base of the transfer.  There are extensive examples in the modern
version (which you can find on the web site's documentation page, if
you don't have it locally).  Also, that '~' is not going to be
expanded
(and if it were, it wouldn't match anything unless your "source"
was
"/").

..wayne..