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Hello folks;
I'm using rsync on my Ubuntu servers to sync a remote folders on a remote machine to a local folders on a local machine.

one thing i couldn't get to work is how to exclude folder. I know i'm suppose to use "exclude" argument but every time i do, i still see the excluded directory synced.
so let's say i have 4 subdirectories on my remote machine under /var/remote, one of them named "media", how can i rsync all directories from the remote server to the local server except for "media" directory?

Here's the command i'm currently using (without exclude):

Code:

##rsync  -r  -a  -v  -e  "ssh -l root" remote_host:/var/remote  /var/local

Thanks in advance for your help

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Thanks folks. never mind. i found the problem. i was using the full path with exclude which i shouldn't have