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Hi, On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:59:07 -0400 Kevin Korb wrote: > Hmmm, according to my interpretation of the man page (I am on 3.1.1) > that is supposed to work however when I test using the "-/ > /etc/passwd" example the / seems to have the same effect as commenting > the line. I get /etc/passwd copied whether the source is / or /etc. I guess that this -/ syntax is not usable

...t; with --filter. > > Try thus to modify your exclude file to: > > - /pkg/* > - /sadm/* > - /cache/* > - /opt/csw/cache/* > -/ /var/apache2/* > - /tmp/* > > an call rsync ... --filter='merge YOUR_FILE' I probably should have posted my OP on the rsnapshot list since that is how this is being done here. I did mention that early on. I'm not sure how I would arrange to run rsync as suggested in an rsnapshot script. I tried this: Comment out all mention of an exclude file Then, where you are to set the arguments to rsync you are supposed to...

Hello list. I'm posting here although I'm actually running rsync from within rsnapshot, but the problem is really rsync-related. I've set up remote backups: remote client to backup from is Windows Server 2003 with sshd and rsyncd running, local server is Debian Linux (Lenny) with rsnapshot configured to use an ssh tunnel. My command line is this one: ssh -f administrator@re...