Quoting Dave Howorth <[email protected]>:
Mark D. Montgomery II wrote:I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I'm using Dirvish to backup my VPS,What's a VPS?
Virtual Private Server
but cannot get it to cross filesystem boundaries.I think you're getting confused. A filesystem boundary is where one filesystem is mounted at some place in another filesystem. It is not concerned with symlinks.
That's what I'm talking about. The symlink to a place on that filesystem is secondary.
My Gallery data is on a separate filesystem now (/mnt/storage is the filesystem, /mnt/storage/var is the new gallery data location that is symlinked to) (I moved it in the past couple months sometiem), so it needs to be backed up. I tried to have a new vault to point to it (using /mnt/storage and /mnt/storage/var), but that didn't work (I'd prefer it to be in the main vault tree anyway).You don't provide output to show what went wrong, either for the separate vaults or the combined one, so we have to guess.
There is no output showing me anything useful. The data is on a separate partition mounted on /mnt/storageThere is a symlink to /mnt/storage/var in the webspace (which I know shouldn't have anything to do with dirvish).
The logfile does not show /mnt/storage at all./mnt/storage is created in the tree, but none of the contents are there (i.e. dirvish/rsync didn't cross to that mounted filesystem).
dirvish (actually rsync) isn't going to cross symlinks unless you give it explicit instructions. Check out rsync's -L option if you want it to.
Would telling rsync to cross symlinks cause it to grab that data that's on a different filesystem that the symlink is pointing to?
But personally I'd try to rearrange storage so there was a single tree, or else use two separate vaults.After I rechecked and cleaned up my settings as below I removed the backup from last night and reran dirvish-runall but the data is still missing.xdev: 0This has nothing to do with symlinks _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
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