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    <p>I am trying to make a script for backing up my home and other important directories to an external drive, while excluding certain directories and filetypes (<code>--exclude</code>). Excluded files need to be deleted on the backup as well, in case I add a filetype or directory to the exclude list (<code>--delete-excluded</code>).</p> <p>Also, everything that is removed needs to be backed up as well, in case something goes horribly wrong (<code>--backup --backup-dir=rsync/backup</code>). </p> <p>I am starting out with this:</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env bash PATH_PWD="`pwd`" PATH_HOME=~ SRC="/home/redsandro" PATH_TARGET="/media/redsandro/MyBook 4TB/backup/`hostname`" PATH_BIN="${SRC}/bin" EXCL_FROM="${PATH_BIN}/rs-backup-external.sh.exclude.txt" DATE="`date +%Y-%m-%d`" OPTS="-ahl --update --del --delete-excluded --force --ignore-errors --progress --stats --exclude-from=$EXCL_FROM --log-file=~/rsync/rsync.$DATE.log" OPTS="$OPTS --backup --backup-dir=rsync/backup/${DATE}" #OPTS="$OPTS --dry-run" echo Backing up $SRC to $PATH_TARGET... echo sudo rsync $OPTS "$SRC/" "${PATH_TARGET}${SRC}" </code></pre> <p>Now, obviously, <code>--del</code> conflicts with <code>--backup --backup-dir=rsync/backup</code>. Can I exclude this directory from being deleted? Or is there perhaps an easier way to do this?</p> <p>My goal is to have a script that I can run on all my machines, where a part syncs to a computer-specific directory, and another part (documents, pictures) sync to a global directory because they all need to be the same anyway.</p>
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    1. CODid you ever solve this? I'm not clear what you are trying to do - a backup of a backup?
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    2. CONo I never did. I was trying to make a regular mirror backup, but also move all files that would be deleted in the backup to a special directory so I could undo anything that was removed by accident.
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    3. COPerhaps look into using the -n or --dry-run option of rsync to see what it would do and then copy the data that would be deleted in the real run of rsync?
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