Hi all,
Just a tip for anyone else...
rsync 2.6.7 has changed the meaning of the --devices option to only mean
device nodes[1], not FIFOs/sockets (a new option --specials instructs
rsync to copy them). This caused filelistReceive failures for us on a
client machine running Debian testing, which h
How can I painlessly upgrade or
patch my current BackupPC version 2.1.1 without screwing up my now working
system?
Thanks to
all
Ed
I'm getting a lot of these
errors in my logs when backing up a certain directory on an Win2000
server.
It backs up some of the files
fine within the directory structure but others are not backed up with "Unable to
link" and "Unable to open"(followed by the directory name) errors
appearing i
On 4/14/06, Vincent Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The -D option to rsync does what we want though, it means --devices on
> older rsyncs and --devices --specials on 2.6.7+. I've changed our
> $Conf{RsyncArgs} to use -D rather than --devices and things have worked
> since, and suggest we do the sa
On 4/14/06, Ed Burgstaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I painlessly upgrade or patch my current BackupPC version 2.1.1
> without screwing up my now working system?
> Thanks to all
Upgrading is easier as installing. Just make sure you specify the same
data directory and it should go very sm
When doing rsync over ssh I'd like to be able to specify certain
filesystem types to exclude backing up. For example, I'd like to
exclude all nfs filesystems from being backed up, this way when I back
up a group of machines, mounting the same nfs share, the nfs contents
don't get backed up multiple
Have a look at rsync's "-x" option.
... Matt
David Rees wrote:
>When doing rsync over ssh I'd like to be able to specify certain
>filesystem types to exclude backing up. For example, I'd like to
>exclude all nfs filesystems from being backed up, this way when I back
>up a group of machines, moun
On 4/14/06, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have a look at rsync's "-x" option.
Not what I'm looking for, that stays on one partition and each machine
has multiple partitions to backup.
-Dave
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On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 21:35, David Rees wrote:
> On 4/14/06, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Have a look at rsync's "-x" option.
>
> Not what I'm looking for, that stays on one partition and each machine
> has multiple partitions to backup.
I always use the --one-file-system option and explic
Okay, maybe this is dangerous to try, but I need to resolve this problem,
so here goes...
I have a backup which includes, unfortunately, a directory containing
233,049 files. It's a deprecated temporary area that a long-running
process has been dumping files into for a long time, and had been fo
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