Hi everyone,
I am trying to setup my backups using rsnapshot. I have a rather large and frequently changing /home/<user>/ that I want to backup. I don't want to backup the frequently changing directories (e.g. my downalods directory or temporary work directory). In other words I wanted to rsnapshot to backup _only_ the directories/files explicitly specified and skip everythign else.
So I created a file ~/.rsync-filter with include rules like these,
include_/.config/** include_/dir1/** include_/.gitconfig include_/.gitignore include_/.gitk include_/dir2/**
Now say I have other files and direcotries like,
~/.oldconfig/ ~/dir2_i_dont_want/ ~/dir3_i_dont_want/
Calling rsync with -F works but it also backs up the other unwanted directory and files. How do I exclude them? The problem is I can't write explicit exclude rules as that would need to be updated every time something new is created (as I want rsnapshot to _not_ backup anything by default).
I tried exclude_/* at the end of the filter rules, that made rsnapshot skip the explicitly mentioned includes like,
include_/dir1/** include_/dir2/**
The hidden files were backed up just fine though. Any ways of doing what I want?