[SOLVED] rsync backup script: how to use quotes?

[Guest JoeS]

I want to use an rsync script to do backups. I'm not sure how to use regular expressions for OPT in the script and could use some help.

Quote:

This is the script I am using:

#!/bin/bash

 

# Flash backup script

 

 

#The source directory:

SRC="/home/joe/"

 

#The target directory:

TRG="/media/linux/joe/"

 

#The rsync options:

OPT="-av --numeric-ids --delete --delete-excluded --filter=merge /home/joe/bin/scripts/flash-filter-rule.txt"

 

#Execute the backup

rsync $OPT $SRC $TRG

This gave me an error:

joe@crunchbang:~/bin/scripts$ bash flash-backup.txt

unexpected end of filter rule: merge

rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at exclude.c(901) [client=3.0.9]

 

I also tried quoting the OPT like this:

OPT="-av --numeric-ids --delete --delete-excluded --filter='merge /home/joe/bin/scripts/flash-filter-rule.txt'"

Unknown filter rule: `'merge'

 

and

OPT="-av --numeric-ids --delete --delete-excluded --filter=merge\ /home/joe/bin/scripts/flash-filter-rule.txt"

Unknown filter rule: `merge\'

 

How do I write this to merge in the filter rule file?

 

Thanks

 

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