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On 05/11/17 13:19, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > Doing a weekly backup of my NAS by rsync I keep getting an error when > it tries to copy the Trash folder, which obviously I don't want it to > copy anyway: > > rsync: opendir "/media/julian/DIANA/.Trash-1000" failed: Permission > denied (13) > > I have tried excluding the specified folder as follows; > > sudo rsync -aAXv /media/julian/CASSIOPEIA /media/julian/ARTEMIS/ > --delete --exclude={/media/julian/CASSIOPEIA/.Trash-1000} > > However it seems to ignore the exclusion. It's not a huge problem as > everything else copies properly, it's just an irritant. > > Any thoughts please? > > Kind regards, > > Julian > Why the curly braces {} and not simply double-quote and escape the exclude .. I suspect if you try to echo this 'parameter' to the console it will tell you why its not parsing it ... MJE
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