--exclude-from did not work

[just_backup]

Hi,

I am running rsync for home directory backup in CentOS 6. I added following home_backup_exclude.txt file in --exclude-from=/root/home_backup_exclude.txt, but the excluded dir and files are still being transferred. How can I fixed it?

$ rsync -av --exclude-from="/root/home_backup_exclude.tx" /home /Backup/

$ cat /root/home_backup_exclude.txt
.cache
.bash_history
.gvfs

Thank you.

Kind regards.

[crest]

Hello just_backup,
welcome to the forum.

Hi,

I am running rsync for home directory backup in CentOS 6. I added following home_backup_exclude.txt file in --exclude-from=/root/home_backup_exclude.txt, but the excluded dir and files are still being transferred. How can I fixed it?

$ rsync -av --exclude-from="/root/home_backup_exclude.tx" /home /Backup/

May be a typo OR the reason - in the above line a "t" is missing -> .txt ???

$ cat /root/home_backup_exclude.txt
.cache
.bash_history
.gvfs

Are you running the rsync job with the user root? Otherwise it won't have access to the /root directory ...

Regards
crest