Can't get --exclude to work

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Hi,

Sorry for asking this but I’ve been banging my head against the wall for a few hours. I’m creating a nightly backup script to backup my Plex folder and want to exclude some folders but no matter what syntax I try, the folders I want to exclude always get copied over.

Here’s my command (using latest beta):
rclone sync /home/stokkes/appdata/plex acd:Backups/Apps/plex --exclude="transcode"

In the plex folder there is a transcode folder that I don’t want to sync. This folder keeps getting synced. I’ve also tried:

–exclude transcode
–exclude “transcode”
–exclude="/transcode"
–exclude=“transcode/”
–exclude="/transcode/**"
–exclude="/transcode/*"

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks!

2

I would say this one is correct.

Test using rclone ls /home/stokkes/appdata/plex --exclude="/transcode/**"

How does it work for you?

3

@ncw

Will try that… Would it be the same for deep folders, i.e.:

–exclude="/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/**" (note the spaces in folder names)

Thanks!

4

Yes that looks good. Note that the paths are a) relative to the root of the remote and b) in unix form not Windows form!

5

Hi,

Read the docs and a few posts bout this but I still cant get my --exclude to work :frowning:

Heres my script:

LOGFILE="/home/mike/Logs/rclone-upload.cron"
FROM="/home/mike/Pre/"
TO="ACD_Mike:/"
DONT="/home/mike/Pre/PreSeries/**"


/usr/sbin/rclone move "$FROM" "$TO" -c --no-traverse --transfers=300 --checkers=300 --delete-after --exclude="$DONT" --min-age 15m --bwlimit 25M --log-file="$LOGFILE"

I need to move all the /Pre/ except /PreSeries/. What am I missing?

6

The includes and excludes are relative to the root of the copy, so you want DONT="/PreSeries/**" I think.

7

… I don’t know why I didnt think about it. Thanks ncw! :slight_smile:

8

–exclude="/home/automation/downloads/rutorrent/completed/radarr/**"

This doesn’t worked for me, why?

9

The includes and excludes are relative to the root of the copy - what does your rclone command line look like?