Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: duplicity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to duplicity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775059 Title: duplicity --exclude-other-filesystems does not record mountpoints Status in “duplicity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: duplicity When using --exclude-other-filesystems, duplicity completely skips directories which are active mountpoints to different file systems. However, the backup will not contain any hint that the mountpoint itself ever existed. Note that this significantly differs from the according rsync option "rsync --one-file-system", which records the empty directories as mountpoints. Example: When backing up the root file system "/", it seems wise to specify "--exclude-other-filesystems" to automatically exclude /proc, /sys and /dev. However, the backup then doesn't contain these directories at all, i.e., not even empty directories needed as mountpoints. Hence, the restored system will be dysfunctional unless all of the mountpoints are recreated by hand. This makes using duplicity for system backups inconvenient and error-prone. Moreover, since duplicity strongly advertises that it uses rsync's algorithm, one would expect it to behave like rsync does, when the according option "rsync --one-file-system" is used. Rsync then records the empty mountpoints, recreating a valid system upon restore. Since duplicity claims to be similar to rsync this could be regarded a bug, at least a pitfall for all users used to rsync. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: duplicity 0.6.10-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Sun May 1 20:24:27 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: duplicity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/775059/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp