today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 10, 2023

• Exclude Files and Directories from rsync

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• Exclude Files and Directories from rsync

  Want to exclude files and directories while making backup with rsync? Here's how to use the --exclude flag of rsync command.