Re: [BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

2017-04-11 Thread Nathanaël Belvo
2017-04-11 16:04 GMT+02:00 Michael : > Add -x to your rsync arguments (don't cross file system boundaries) and > then back up all of your mount points (/ /usr /home /var etc.) > > > That way you never try and back up /prox or /sys. > > > > On 17-04-11 09:47 AM, Doug Lytle wrote: > My intuitio

Re: [BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

2017-04-11 Thread Michael
Add -x to your rsync arguments (don't cross file system boundaries) and then back up all of your mount points (/ /usr /home /var etc.) That way you never try and back up /prox or /sys. On 17-04-11 09:47 AM, Doug Lytle wrote: My intuition is that there are things mounted and that ssh can

Re: [BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

2017-04-11 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 11/4/17 23:49, Nathanaël Belvo wrote: Hello again, Half an hour after my new try, I have excluded the files you advised me to, but it is not working. In the /LOG.040217/ file, the last line prompts : 2017-04-11 15:18:55 full backup started for directory / (baseline backup #0) I'll wait

Re: [BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

2017-04-11 Thread Nathanaël Belvo
Hello again, Half an hour after my new try, I have excluded the files you advised me to, but it is not working. In the *LOG.040217* file, the last line prompts : 2017-04-11 15:18:55 full backup started for directory / (baseline backup #0) I'll wait until it times out. Any other idea ? Thanks a

Re: [BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

2017-04-11 Thread Nathanaël Belvo
Hello, First, let me apologize because I don't really know what reply form is expected on this mailing list, so I'll just leave it like this for this mail. Thanks for your replay, I will try it now on a single server to test it, I'll come back later to tell if it succeeded. Nate, 2017-04-11 14:

Re: [BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

2017-04-11 Thread Doug Lytle
>>> My intuition is that there are things mounted and that ssh can not resolve >>> mounted stuff, but I'm not sure of anything. I've never tried to backup root before, but my guess would be that you'd need to exclude: /proc /dev /sys /run Doug

[BackupPC-users] My BackupPC can not backup root folder

2017-04-11 Thread Nathanaël Belvo
Hello everyone, I am a student using BackupPC to backup several servers. I managed to backup multiple times with the rsync method, I properly applied *ssh-keys* on each hosts etc... and everything works well. I'm saving the */home* and */etc* folders and I can retrieve files so I'm really happy