Rclone ignored --exclude-from

[David]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

exclude from file is being ignored and and everything is being copied.

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.48.0

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Ubuntu-1804-bionic-64

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

sftp

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone copy --progress --exclude-from exclude-file.txt /home/dave/files/test Box-2:/home/david/Backup

A log from the command with the -vv flag (eg output from rclone -vv copy /tmp remote:tmp)

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

Can you post the contents of the --exclude-from file? Note the paths in there need to be relative to /home/dave/files/test

[thestigma]

The most probably cause is an error or misunderstanding in the filter syntaxt - so post that if you can (and redact any sensitive information).

[David]

relative

exclude-file.txt.

Backup.January.2017
Backup.February.2017
Backup.March.2017
Backup.April.2017
Backup.May.2017
Backup.June.2017
Backup.July.2017
Backup.August.2017
Backup.September.2017
Backup.October.2017
Backup.November.2017
Backup.December.2017
index.txt

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

If you want to exclude a directory and its contents you need directory/**.

That will refer to a directory anywhere in the tree, but I guess yours are at the root, so you probably want

/Backup.January.2017/**
/Backup.February.2017/**
...
/index.txt

You could probably shorten that to

/Backup.*.2017/**
/index.txt

or maybe even

/Backup.*/**
/index.txt

[David]

Thank you very much ncw