Hello I am using rclone since a week and it is an fantastic tool to backup systems in the cloud. I want to backup my entire user files. I want to backup some directories of my /home/$USER. I don't want to includes hidden folders which starts with period in front of it. How should I do that?
I read the docs but I couldn't figure out which command is best for me and how to use it. That's why I am posting in this forum.
filtering can be confusing, so often we use rclone tree or rclone ls to test the --exclude rule
once rules is tested, then can use a command such as rclone sync . remote: --exclude='.*/' --dry-run
this might do what you want?
# list all files
rclone tree . -all
/
├── .dir01
│ └── .file
├── .file
└── dir
└── file
# apply exclude rule
rclone tree . --exclude='.*/' -all
/
├── .file
└── dir
└── file