On 11/14/18, Michael Wagner <wagner_m_bre...@web.de> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2018 at 12:18:47, Lee wrote: >> On 11/14/18, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> > I'd recommend >> > taking a look at rsync for performing the copy. >> >> I've used rsync at work. It was fast & good enuf for keeping my files >> on different machines consistent but I never figured out how to sync >> everything except <some list of files/directories> eg. backing up >> ~/.cache seems like a waste of time & disk space. > > Hello Lee, > > look at the options --exclude and --exclude-from in the manpage. It's > easy to exclude files or directories with rsync.
Maybe I was half-blind the morning I did the man rsync. Or maybe it was not bothering to ask anyone & muddling through as best I could, but clearly I need to take another look at rsync. Thanks Lee
