Because of limitations of my NAS, I can only run user-space NFS (unfs) on it.
When BackupPC has TopDIR set to the mounted (u)NFS share, BackupPC ends up silently freezing at the start of a backup. I traced the problem to issues with symbolic links. Specifically, with the combination of the flags --links and --times If I run: rsync -v --times --links <symlink> <unfs share> I get the error message: rsync: failed to set times on "<path-to-file>": Stale NFS file handle (116) However, the link itself seems to copy ok except that the time is always the time of the copy (since it failed to set times I guess). Now assuming that I can't fix unfs, is there any way to get rsync to ignore times on links (while still respecting the --times variable on other files). I'm thinking of something analogous to the --ignore-dir-times directive. Alternatively, is there any way to get BackupPC to just ignore this error? Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
