View source for Desktop Backup

Members of the HCL group may backup their desktops to heterogeneous server in the following directory 

  heterogeneous:/home/desktops/&lt;user&gt;

This can easly be done with rsync as follows 

  rsync -axv /home/&lt;your_desktop_username&gt;/ &lt;user&gt;@heterogeneous:/home/desktops/&lt;user&gt;/ --exclude-from=.bkup_excludes

and make the file .backup_excludes with files and directorys you would like to exclude, for example your download folder. An example of Daves excludes file: 

  .Skype/
  .Trash-1000/
  .adobe/
  .cache/
  .config/chromium
  .dropbox/
  .mozilla/
  .ssh/
  .svn/
  .thumbnails/
  .thunderbird/
  Downloads/
  Dropbox/
  backups/