Can't get rsync to ignore .git directories

• rsync-time-backup

  18 3,307 5.2 Shell

  Time Machine style backup with rsync.

I've found an issue that seems to point to a similar problem. https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup/issues/183

• rsync

  39 2,314 3.5 C

  An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

  

hbarta@olive:~/Downloads/rsync$ rsync --version rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2018 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, prealloc rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. hbarta@olive:~/Downloads/rsync$

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• rsync-over-ssh-backup

  1 0 0.0 Shell

  script to backup selected directories using rsync over ssh

Thanks for the suggestions. I've put the script up at https://github.com/HankB/rsync-over-ssh-backup, checked in as I had been using it and updated with your suggestions. Crontab entry is in the README.md.

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