On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:46:14AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 04/02 12:17 , Tino Schwarze wrote:
> > These are all unix domain sockets and should simply be ignored (whycan't
> > tar save these like the device nodes in /dev?)
> 
> Because sockets are created on the fly; and should only exist when their
> parent process exists. Creating them without a corresponding process to be
> attached to them is meaningless; and therefore they should never be backed
> up.

So shouldn't BackupPC always skip them and never store them in the
backups?

Bye,

Tino.

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