Hi, I can see some people having a similar problem on the mailing list before but no apparent resolution. This is running Ubuntu 8.10 with rdiff-backup 1.1.16 on both client and server. The server is running on an OpenVZ VM.
On the client I run: sudo rdiff-backup --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-sockets r...@hccorp.co.uk::/ /home/james/backups/hccorp And I get the following output: ListError dev/ptmx/pts [Errno 95] Operation not supported ListError dev/sg9/shm [Errno 95] Operation not supported ListError lib/init/readlink/rw [Errno 95] Operation not supported ListError opt/proc [Errno 95] Operation not supported ListError srv/sys [Errno 95] Operation not supported ListError var/local/lock [Errno 95] Operation not supported ListError var/opt/run [Errno 95] Operation not supported These are all kind of my mount points but an extra path element is inserted between the parent directory and the mount point itself, apparently each time it is the previous item in the parent So rdiff-backup is scanning /lib/init and encounters first /lib/init/readlink, then /lib/init/rw. It should be ignoring /lib/init/rw because it's a separate filesystem but instead it's doing something weird and apparently concatenating the next directory entry to the previous one rather than to the parent directory's path. FYI my mount points on the server are as follows: /dev/simfs on / type reiserfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) /proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec) As it happens, this isn't causing a problem for me. This is a mount point and so it should be ignored given the parameters I'm giving. All the other files appear to have been transferred correctly. It does still look like a bug in rdiff-backup, possibly caused by some weird aspect of openvz or something? Thanks James _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
