severity 562251 wishlist thanks Hi,
Olivier Berger wrote (24 Dec 2009 09:50:00 GMT) : > The include definition as '/' only (for a full backup) is not supported by the > duplicity helper. > However, I see nothing preventing backupninja to perform full backups if user > wishes so. > Of course in such case excludes should be set by the user for /proc, /sys and > such > dirs/mount points if he/she wants it to succeed. Preliminary notes: * this issue is common to the duplicity and rdiff-backup handlers * this anti-/ check was initially meant as a feature, so I'm downgrading this bug to the wishlist severity. I'm not opposed to the removal of this check, but we should at the same time document a bit how to perform backups of '/'... else the next submitted bug report will be "backupninja stalls when trying to backup /", because rdiff-backup or duplicity will be constantly reading from /dev/zero for 3 days. A plan could be: * document (in README) how to safely perform backups of /, either by using duplicity/rdiff-backup's --exclude-other-filesystems option, or by manually excluding the special mountpoints your platform has (keeping in mind backupninja is not meant to be Linux-specific) * add a warning to the dup and rdiff ninjahelpers, explaining this a bit, advising to read the fine README * disable this check Patches welcome! Bye, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr-fingerprint.asc | Then we'll come from the shadows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
