<html><head></head><body><div>try /opt/sw/template/proc and exclude the entire directory and not just all contents. If it's a bind mount from /proc it gets a redirect and I'm not sure if it's "same filesystem" or not. Nor am I sure if that matters with rsync.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 10:33 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I've always struggled with the exclude option of rsync and I've thought that I had this right until I woke up and saw rsync transmitting kcore!</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I have some chroots where I have done a bind mount of proc. I don't want rsync archiving those. Below is how I've formulated the command in perl to spawn the real rsync. I have moved the real rsync to rsync.bin. I'm using a backup system to backup / via rsync, but I can't specify exclude options in this system. I'm detecting the system on the server and then adding options to limit, log, and exclude.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>system "$RSYNC_BIN --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/opt/sw/template/proc/*,/sys/*,$log_path} --bwlimit=$limit_KB --log-file=$log_path @ARGV";</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The problem is with '/opt/sw/template/proc/*' What should that be?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div><pre>_______________________________________________
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