I have: OPTIONS="--archive --acls --xattrs --hard-links --sparse --stats --human-readable " rsync $OPTIONS --password-file /root/cripta/keys/rsync.secrets \ --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=/run \ --exclude=/data --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/other --exclude=/media --exclude=/var/lib/samba/lock/ --exclude=/var/run/ \ --include=/data/storage_** \ / root@Isengard::MyBook_Telcontar/001 It is failing, /data/storage_** is not included. What is the proper way in this tree: /data/something/* /data/somethingelse/* /data/somethingmore/* /data/somethingevenmore/* /data/storage_a/* /data/storage_b/* to copy /data/storage_a, /data/storage_b, and ignore all the rest, without explicitly listing all the rest? I thought that --exclude=/data --include=/data/storage_** would do it. The manual is very confusing to me. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)