What is the correct way to write exceptions for rsync\rsnapshot?

Question

linux

Hey!
Can you please tell me how to correctly set exclusions for some folders / files?
With the help of rsnapshot I'm trying to backup the user's folder separately (so far in it).

snapshot_root	/home/user/backup/
exclude_file	/home/user/.config/rsnapshot.exclude
backup	/home/user/	snapshot/

I've already tried this way and that, I understand that I'm being wise with the ways.
For example, I want not to pick up a heavy folder with downloads, I tried the options:

- /home/*/downloads/
- /home/**/downloads/
- /home/user/*/downloads/
- /user/downloads
- downloads/ 
- /downloads/

But anyway, the entire /home/user folder is synced, for the life of me :(
Perhaps one of the options is correct, but I'm afraid that I'm missing it, or I'm setting the path incorrectly in the backup directive.

Answer 1

For example so.

rsync -avz '-e shh ' [email protected]:/home/  --exclude="downloads*" /somefolder/