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I am trying to backup raspbian onto itself following this stackexchange post but it seems the exclude from flag doesnt work,

This is the command I am using

sudo  rsync -avH --delete-during --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/home/pi/Desktop/rsync-exclude.txt /  /media/usb0/pi_backup/

and this is my rsync-exclude.txt file.

/proc/*
/sys/*
/dev/*
/boot/*
/tmp/*
/run/*
/mnt/*
/data/*
/media/*

.Trashes
._.Trashes
.fseventsd
.Spotlight-V100
.DS_Store
.cache
.AppleDesktop
.AppleDB
Network Trash Folder
Temporary Items
lost+found

.bash_history
/etc/fake-hwclock.data
/home/pi/pydio-core-6.2.2.tar.gz
/var/lib/rpimonitor/stat/
/home/pi/.cache/
/media/usb0/
/home/pi/.kodi/addons/
/home/pi/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/

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and this is the command I am using now that is resulting what above you can see

shopt -s dotglob; sudo  rsync -auvoltH --devices --delete-during -E --stats --progress --exclude "/home/pi/pi_backup2/home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails/" --exclude "/media/" --exclude "/home/pi/.cache/" --exclude "/home/pi/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/" --exclude "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/" --log-file=/home/pi/Desktop/backup.log --delete-excluded --exclude-from "/home/pi/Desktop/rsync-exclude.txt" /  /media/usb0/pi_backup/
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  • In what sense doesn't it work? As in, at all? All that stuff just gets copied? – goldilocks Aug 29 '16 at 13:51
  • Yes , it gets copied however I passed individual path to --exclude flag while passing command and that works but not the paths from file – Ciasto piekarz Aug 29 '16 at 14:14
  • Dunno what to say. I just tried replicating this -- normally I don't have blank lines or paths with spaces, but all that didn't make any difference. It worked as expected. – goldilocks Aug 29 '16 at 14:41

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Try the command below.

sudo  rsync -avH --delete-during --delete-excluded --exclude-from '/home/pi/Desktop/rsync-exclude.txt' / /media/usb0/pi_backup/

The exclude from should be used as --exclude-from '/home/backup/exclude.txt' instead of --exclude-from-/home/backup/exclude.txt

Change your path to relative paths. I think that's where the problem is.

The tricky thing with rsync is that you need to use a relative path when you are trying to exclude things, because when it tries to match the exclusions it won’t use the first part of the path for the match… 

proc/*
sys/*
dev/*
boot/*
tmp/*
run/*
mnt/*
data/*
media/*
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  • `--exclude-from=foobar.txt` should be fine as long as the file path doesn't include spaces. – goldilocks Aug 29 '16 at 14:39
  • File path doesn't includes spaces, however a hyphen in file name. I tried as per answer the but proc, sys and all folder mentioned by @goldilocks are getting created – Ciasto piekarz Aug 29 '16 at 14:58
  • If you use `/proc/*` the `proc` *folder* should be created, just nothing in it will be copied, and the destination side contents will be deleted. I.e., it should be empty afterward. – goldilocks Aug 29 '16 at 15:01