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Here is part of my backup script: nice -n 15 rsync -avl --exclude=".*" \ --include-from="/home/bob/backup_includes" \ "$fromdir" "$todir" Here is the content of /home/bob/backup_includes /home/bob/.vimrc /home/bob/.gitconfig My problem is that neither the .vimrc nor .gitconfig are copied to the backup directory. I have read the man page about

Hi Folks, I can't get the syntax of --include-from right, nothing at all gets transferred. The rsync command: # do the backup nice -n 15 rsync -av \ --include-from="/home/bob/backup_includes" \ --exclude-from="/home/bob/backup_excludes" \ $fromdir $todir The excludes file: .* *~ Videos/ Downloads/ Dropbox/ The includes file: .vimrc .gitconfig .bash_aliases .bashrc

Reading and re-reading the man page has got me nowhere with this issue and searching your site on '--exclude-from' got me to the same place. Here is the script I am using: #################################### #/bin/bash suffix=`date +%Y%m%d` echo Suffix is "$suffix" fromdir=/home/bob/ echo Source dir is "$fromdir" todir="$maxtor6"BackupOfHome