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I'm trying to exclude some directories from being shared on the rsync --daemon side, not the client side. And there are annoyingly no examples of how to do so online. I've tried:
exclude="taiwan 2009"+"Gantz" because I read somewhere that you can only have 1 exclude statement but you can use + or something
exclude="/mnt/samba/blablabla/taiwan 2009/***+/mnt/samba/..../Gantz/***" supposedly the *** is recursive , should be recursive from the start anyway
And a lot more which I haven't typed out because I'm hungry. Any examples please? The manpages should really include examples, saying "excludes files according to a pattern" doesn't help at all.

(I never used “rsyncd”, so be warned…)

You’re, most likely, better off using “exclude from” rule and putting everything in that file. For example:

in “/var/lib/rsyncd/my_exclude_rules” you have something like:

Note the minus sign followed by a space at the beginning!

If this didn’t work, try using a relative, instead of absolute, path names. In other words, try:


Please read the sections “FILTER RULES” and “INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES” in the manual of “rsync”.

Also pay attention to the “-F” option. I think it’s better suited for your needs.

As I said in the above, I never used “rsyncd”, so everything here is theoretical.

Hope that helps.
Ziyad.

Here's an rsyncd.conf from one of my machines that I use for doing backups: