rsync exclude files or folders
Written by Guillermo Garron
Date: 2012-12-23 15:37:32 00:00
rsync is a powerful command, I use it a lot to backup files, or to sync files between computers.
But, there are times when you do not want to have an exact copy in the remote server from the files in the local server. If you want to exclude some files from syncing you can use --exclude
option.
Exclude a single file
rsync -avz --exclude 'file' source/ destination/
Exclude a type of files
rsync -avz --exclude '*.typ' source/ destination/
Exclude a folder
rsync -avz --exclude 'folder' source/ destination/
Exclude multiple files or folders
rsync -avz --exclude '*.file_type' --exclude 'folder' source/ destination/