The default rsync arguments in v4 include --one-file-system, which could be
why it's not descending into those directories (ie, are the missing
directories different file systems?).
If so, you can either remove --one-file-system (in which case you'll need
to explicitly exclude things like /proc), or add the list of mount points
in the list of things to backup.
Craig
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 7:26 PM Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've made quite a bit of headway on my issues deploying a BackupPC 4
> server. I was having issues with the $Conf{RsyncClientPath} because the
> client path on FreeBSD is /usr/local/bin/rsync, whereas on Linux, the path
> os /usr/bin/rsync, and specifying it in the per-host config files did not
> override the one in config.pl. So I commented it out of config.pl, and
> the per-host files seem to work correctly. So is that a change from 3 to 4
> that the config.pl overrides the per-host config files?
>
> Now having figured that piece of it out, I have a couple of other issues
> that I would like to as about.
>
> First, I am noticing that, while all of these are Unix and Linux boxes,
> with their heirarchical filesystems layout, I am seeing directories not
> being backed up, for instance, /home and /var/log that I have noticed so
> far. I drill down in the dieplay and see things like
>
> The directory /
> <http://romaine/bpc/backuppc.pl?action=browse&host=defiant&num=0&share=/&dir=/>
> usr
> <http://romaine/bpc/backuppc.pl?action=browse&host=defiant&num=0&share=/&dir=/usr>
> /home
> <http://romaine/bpc/backuppc.pl?action=browse&host=defiant&num=0&share=/&dir=/usr/home>
> is empty
>
> For comparison, my v3 installation for my workstation (FBSD) had 647808
> files (81908.8 MiB) for the last full backup, while the v4 install has
> 577488 files (74564.2 MiB). My wife's desktop (Linux) has 261948 files
> (19657.6 MiB) in v3, and 17538 files (1146.9 MiB), so a ton of files seem
> to be missing.
>
> The other thing is that I have a device I want to turn off backups on, so
> I set $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1; but it is still trying to access the
> device though it is offline.
>
> Any ideas on these issues?
> Thanks,
> --b
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