rsync - Exclude files that are over a certain size?

Question

I am doing a backup of my desktop to a remote machine. I'm basically doing rsync -a ~ example.com:backup/ However there are loads of large files, e.g. wikipedia dumps etc. Most of the files I care a lot about a small, such as firefox cookie files, or .bashrc. Is there some invocation to rsync that will exclude files that are over a certain size? That way I could copy all files that are less than 10MB first, then do all files. That way I can do a fast backup of the most important files, then a longer backup of everything else.

Answer 1

There is a max-size option:

--max-size=SIZE         don't transfer any file larger than SIZE

So:

# rsync -rv --max-size=1.5m root@tss01:/tmp/dm

Will send only files less than 1.5m.