--exclude-from help

[ddos]

Hi All

I'm a little confused as to how --exclude-from is supposed to work

At the moment I have a rclone-b2-filterlist.txt with the below that I am calling as a cronjob

crontab:
15 3 * * * rclone sync --log-file=b2.homes.log --exclude-from rclone-b2-filterlist.txt --max-size 500M /var/datastore/homes/ backblaze:remote/homes/

rclone-b2-filterlist.txt
- *.minio.sys

I am expecting that whenever rclone sees a directory called ".minio.sys" it will be ignore and not synced to the cloud storage location, is that correct ?

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

hello and welcome to the forum,

filtering can be confusing and sync can be dangerous.

so use rclone ls to test the filter, using something like
rclone ls --exclude-from rclone-b2-filterlist.txt --max-size 500M /var/datastore/homes/

[ddos]

it looks like:

rclone ls --exclude-from rclone-b2-filterlist.txt --max-size 500M /var/datastore/homes/

is listing just the files with *.minio.sys in the name which is strange as I am using --exclude-from, that doesn't make any sense or am not understanding how to use the switch,

rclone-b2-filterlist.txt
- *.minio.sys

why would rclone ls list the files ?

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

if you want to exclude a folder, try
rclone-b2-filterlist.txt
*.minio.sys/**

[ddos]

Will that skip copying the directory wherever it come across it ?

Or do I need to define the path explicitly ?

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

rclone should skip the directory wherever it comes across it.

but you must test it for yourself using something like
rclone ls --log-level=DEBUG --log-file=rclone.txt

then read rclone.txt.