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Trying to rsync a home directory for backup purposes as root, which has a user sshfs mount point in. Currently it gets an I/O error on the sshfs mount point. If rsync encounters an I/O error it disables deletions -- so files are accumulating. You can get rsync to ignore I/O errors and delete anyway, but that sounds like a VERY bad idea for backing up this folder, since if the disk fails I might want to use the copy, rather than delete it! You write a convoluted script to unmount, and then remount, but that has several issues (not least I need to know the password to use and store it somewhere, or switch the mount to a password free SSH key based system). I'm doing "rsync -av --delete --exclude /home/user/sshfsmount /home/user remoteuser@remotehost:/backupdir" Can I do this with a better exclude statement? My manual reading foo is clearly weak today. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html