On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:26:29 -0700 John Sechrest <sechr...@gmail.com> dijo:
>does it make sense to try to backup /dev or to try to backup sockets? I don't know. Does it? I don't know what any of those files do. But Keith said that /dev is recreated on boot, so probably that should be excluded. As for the sockets, I found a site dating back to 2009 that says this is a bug in rdiff-backup: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?26847 Apparently some think that it is unnecessary to back up sockets. I'd be happy to exclude them, if I can figure out a way to write the exclude line so it just excludes sockets. I am still curious why I never get errors when I run a complete backup (i.e., rename the destination folder so it will create everything new). The errors only occur when doing an incremental. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug