Ubuntu – rsync exclude a single file from the root folder

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I want to rsync from a folder, which contanins index.php (which need to be excluded), and many other directories contains index.php too. i created an exclude file and added index.php there. but all the index.php files were gone. Is there any proper method to avoid the only file from syncing?

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rsync uses directories relative to the root rsync folder. You should be able to achieve this using something like

rsync -aAX ./ ../target --exclude=/index.php

The "/" will indicate the root directory.

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The exclude pattern is relative to the source files, not the destination files. You're actually excluding 192.168.2.100:/etc/etc/fstab, which does not exist.

You should use:

rsync -avP --exclude '/fstab' 192.168.2.100:/etc/ /etc

Ubuntu – How to exclude files in rsync

There are several issues with your rsync command (also see manpage for rsync for detailed explanation of filter rules).

we need an --exclude command each for any given pattern.
paths given need to be relative to the source path (no absolute paths).
options need to be given before we state source and destination.

For your example the following syntax will work:

rsync -avAX --exclude=another/ --exclude=temp/ ~/Documents/ ~/Backups/TEST

Note that if an exlude pattern ends with / it refers to a directory. If you omit it both, files and directories with that name will be excluded. Replace it with a wildcard * to exclude all files or directories with that string in their names.

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