On Mon 23 Feb 2009, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
>
> I want to exclude all directories and subdirectories that are called /dev/
>
> My backup contains a lot of development work on other hardware, and
> I'm finding the backup is reporting failed due to trying to back up
> non-regular files, e.g.
>
> IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
> skipping non-regular file "home/wookey/acapela-bits/i386-lenny/dev/full"
Normally rsync shouldn't have any trouble copying the device nodes...
If you're running dirvish as a non-superuser, then that might explain
it.
Adding:
rsync-option:
--no-D
might be a better fix in that case.
> If I put
> exclude:
> */dev/
> in my master conf, will this have the desired effect?
No, list items need some white space before the values, so at the least
add a space before the *. Also, the pattern won't work, as '*' does not
match slashes; you'd need "**/dev/" although "dev/" should work just as
well. Resulting in:
exclude:
dev/
Paul
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