rsync doesn't copy dotfiles?

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

I find a vexing problem - I am backing up my home directory with rsync
"rsync -rlptoD --exclude 'vids' --exclude 'crap' /home/willyyam/*
/mnt/mybook/.", and it does what I would hope it does, except that it
does not copy any dotfiles or dotdirectories.  Reading through the
documentation, it seems like it should copy dotfiles, but something is
amiss, because it is not.

Anyone have a suggestion as to what I'm doing wrong?
-- 

yours,

William

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