Hi, Arnold Krille wrote on 2011-09-04 01:11:12 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up slash partition]: > On Sunday 04 September 2011 00:08:38 Holger Parplies wrote: > > Arnold Krille wrote on 2011-09-03 01:32:15 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Backing up slash partition]: > > > You should make sure you don't cross mount-points though. Otherwise the > > > backup of localhosts '/' will recurse into itself. > > > > How that? > > Backing up / (including /var/lib/backuppc/pc) into > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost. Unless you exclude that dir by excludes or -- > one-filesystem (given that dir is on another partition) this results in a > recursion.
that only happens in the unusual case of backing up the BackupPC server itself (where backing up everything from / is a particularly bad idea). And the real problem is not the recursion - excluding /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/new would eliminate that - it's backing up the pool as data into itself. Either you've got the pool, then you don't need a backup of it, or you haven't, then you also haven't got the backup. In a way, that's an implementation of write-only memory, and a practical demonstration why exponential growth isn't sustainable. Hope that helps. Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
