[S3tools-general] help with exclude and stuff

[Simone C. <si...@co...>]

Hi,
I’m trying to backup to S3 my whole home directory (let’s say /home/user/*)

how do I write the commandline in order to have some folders excluded
from the backup?

i.e. I dont want to have /home/user/Desktop/not_needed/* and
/home/user/no_no_no/* backed up on S3 because these are Dropbox
folders and svn repositories.

I try this and other variations, but it does not work (s3cmd does
backup everything):

s3cmd sync —exclude /home/user/Desktop/not_needed/* —exclude
/home/user/no_no_no/* —include “/home/user/*” /home/user
s3://some-backup-bucket

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thankyou.
Simone.