2016-08-31 How do you exclude some directories from an rsync jobs? The Internet tells you: rsync -a --exclude={ignore,dismiss,2delete} /from /to I happened to fall prey to this supposed-to-be rsync syntax. In the end, I had to learn it the hard way, just as the user xxor commented here: [0] The clue is, that this is nothing but brace expansion, which is a bashism. It has nothing at all to do with rsync. What a shame I didn't see that for ages! [0] http://askubuntu.com/questions/320458/how-to-exclude- multiple-directories-with-rsync/525513#525513 http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke