I’m unable to exclude the lost+found folder in rsync – rights-related issues are considered as I/O errors by the program (?) and thus I can’t ever use the --delete flag for instance: If the sending side detects any I/O errors, then the deletion of any files at the destination will be automaticall…

How to exclude the lost+found directory in rsync?

vgaetera (Vladislav Grigoryev) February 16, 2021, 4:15pm 4

rsync --exclude=lost+found/ ...

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