I'm stuck on this, I'm trying not to backup what really isn't needed is some rails apps I'm doing. Basically Bitfolk does backups of (amongst other things) my /var directory (I already have a .bitfolk-rsync-filter to ensure that some stuff in /var isn't backed up). In side /var/www/rails-apps I have a rails app (with more to be added), since the git repositotires the code comes from are backed up elsewhere I don't want to backup each app's .git folder or any .git* files. I also don;t want to backup the log or tmp directories for each app. I have a /var/www/.bitfolk-rsync-filter file with the following contents: - .* - .*/ - rails-apps/*/tmp/ - rails-apps/*/log/ - rails-apps/**/.git* - rails-apps/*/.git/ I have also tried this contents: - .* - .*/ - /var/www/rails-apps/*/tmp/ - /var/www/rails-apps/*/log/ - /var/www/rails-apps/**/.git* - /var/www/rails-apps/*/.git/ However the following files (which I don't want backed up) are being backed up: /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/.git (directory) /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/.gitignore /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/vendor/plugins/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/vendor/assets/stylesheets/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/lib/tasks/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/lib/assets/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/integration/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/functional/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/unit/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/test/fixtures/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/.gitignore /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/app/models/.gitkeep /var/www/rails-apps/osmx.staging/app/mailers/.gitkeep What have I got wrong (so far neither the man page or Google have helped me)? -- Robert Gauld http://www.robertgauld.co.uk

I'm afraid that it's set to only operate on items in the current directory, because of bugs in different versions of rsync as to what it does when multiple levels are considered.