/home/<user>/.gvfs causing problems for rsync

[Johann Spies]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:46:59PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > And the 'workaround'  to exclude the directory like this is not working:
> > 
> > --exclude=".gvfs/"
> 
> I use this:
> 
>    --exclude "- .gvfs/"
> 
> ... and it works fine.

Thanks for your answer.  Just a pity that it does not make difference here:

% grep gvfs /usr/local/bin/rugsteun.sh 
  --exclude "- .gvfs/"  --exclude "/home/js/\.cache" \

% rsync: readlink "/home/js/.gvfs" failed: Permission denied (13)
1127831 files to consider
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion

Regards
Johann
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