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I'm trying to backup my system using rsync. I've read some tutorials and finally write my command:

rsync -aAxv --del --ignore-errors --force \
      --exclude={"/home/*/.thumbnails/*",\
                 "/home/*/.cache/mozilla/*",\
                 "/home/*/.cache/chromium/*",\
                 "/home/*/.local/share/Trash/*",\
                 "/home/*/.gvfs",\
                 "/home/shirain/Bureau/",\
                 "/dev/*",\
                 "/proc/*",\
                 "/sys/*",\
                 "/tmp/*",\
                 "/run/*",\
                 "/mnt/*",\
                 "/media/*",\
                 "/lost+found"} \
      --stats \
      --filter "- .thumbnails/" \
      --filter "- .Trash/" \
      --filter "- *.tmp" \
      --filter "- lost+found/" \
      --filter "- .cache/" \
      --filter "- .beagle/" \
      / /run/media/shirain/SSD/backup_root_rsync

But, rsync exclude doesn't copy anything from the folders /home and /boot. I was thinking it was just a strange thing when you want to backup /, so I've done another command to backup /boot and /home.

But, in /home, as you can see, I don't want /home/shirain/Bureau/ and other specific folders, but rsync copies them.

So my question is, what's the option to say to rsync to copy /home and not the the folders I've chosen?

"/home/*/.thumbnails/*","/home/*/.cache/mozilla/*","/home/*/.cache/chromium/*","/home/*/.local/share/Trash/*","/home/*/.gvfs","/home/shirain/Bureau/")

and: /boot, in one command.

I'm on manjaro linux 16.06.

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  • use a separate --exclude for each pattern. Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 17:59
  • I've do this but nothing change (and on arch linux wiki is said that you can you {} with bash). But Ipor Sircer's answer works so i definitly think it's not this. Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 18:45

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I think your /boot and /home is on a different partition. Remove -x parameter, which means don't cross filesystem boundaries

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  • Thank you, it had worked well. But, if i have to restore the system, is it a possible source of problems because unknow or bad "architectures" of the different partitions? Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 18:49
  • x64 is compatible with i386 + x64. i386 compatible with itself. and i don't use devices with arm*, so ask somebody else of arm compatibility. Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 19:02

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