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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

...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 give both short and long like so: rsync_short_args HERE rsync_long_args HERE (The white space before HERE is reqiured to be a tab) So I tried to use your suggestion by placing it in the long_arg section like so: ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- rsync_long_args --filter="merge /etc/rsnap/ex/rsnap_2xsMisc_exclude" --stats...

...t_root /media/extfp/Backup/rsnapshot-debx40/ no_create_root 1 cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger retain daily 7 retain weekly 4 retain monthly 3 verbose 5 loglevel 5 logfile /var/log/rsnapshot.log lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid rsync_long_args -ev --rsync-path=/home/backupuser/rsync-wrapper.sh exclude "**no-backup**" link_dest 0 rsync_numtries 1 backup backupuser at debx40:/home/lorenz/ home/lorenz/ backup backupuser at debx40:/etc/ etc/ backup backupuser at debx40:/root/ root/ rsnapshot -D -c /etc/rsnapshot-debx40.conf dail...

...t_root /media/extfp/Backup/rsnapshot/test/ no_create_root 1 cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger retain hourly 6 retain daily 7 retain weekly 4 verbose 5 loglevel 5 logfile /var/log/rsnapshot.log lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid rsync_long_args -ev --rsync-path=/home/backupuser/rsync-wrapper.sh ssh_args -i /home/backupuser/.ssh/id_rsa link_dest 0 rsync_numtries 1 backup backupuser at debx40:/ debx40/ and this is the content of /home/backupuser/rsync-wrapper.sh on the remote debx40. #!/bin/sh date >> /home/backupuser/backuplog ech...

...main points of my rsnapshot.conf: snapshot_root /cygdrive/u/docs_bkup/ #cmd_cp /usr/bin/cp cmd_rm /usr/bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync interval daily 3 # I’ve tried several configurations…this is the current one… rsync_short_args -arltgoDvzi rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded --modify-window=1 #If tested this both ways… # 0-> seems to copy less and du reports less space. link_dest 1 # just a test source – hard to see the destination, but it’s “.” backup /cygdrive/c/Documents and Sett...