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# 8  
Old 03-16-2010
So i guess there is no solution to this problem. Have to do it in separate commands and multiple connections and multiple password entries. This SUCKS!

Looks like this is something that should be added to rsync functionality..
# 9  
Old 03-16-2010
should be possible with

--exclude-from=FILE1
--include-from=FILE2

perhaps

specify the whole home directory to be synced

then exclude /home, and include /home/dir1, /home/dir2, /home/dir2

never tried this, but might work
# 10  
Old 03-19-2010
MySQL
Try this:
Code:
rsync -vrt --size-only --delete user@host:/home/user1/{dir1,dir2,dir3} local_dir/

Worked in my case...
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