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Re: [LUG] rsync error.. tries to copy Trash folder

 

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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