[PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com wrote:

> you can use --exclude dirOrFileName multiple times - it will form a list

>From the target machine I tried to rsync all of my home directory from
salmo, except for the data/ subdirectory but my syntax is wrong. On the
source host data/ is a subdirectory under ~/. On the target host it's a
different partition, /data.

rsync -av --exclude=data/ salmo:* .

skips all ~/ and copies over no files.

What's the correct syntax for this?

Regards,

Rich