rsync: Exclude Files and Directories [Examples]

rsync: Exclude Files and Directories [Examples]

rsync is my preferred tool for creating backups from remote machines. It's fast, and convenient and the incremental backups save time, disk space and bandwidth.You may encounter a situation where you have to copy most of the content but also exclude some files and directories while taking backup with rsync.Thankfully, rsync allows you to exclude files and directories of your choice by adding the exclude flag to your rsync command:--exclude 'dir_…