Hello Chris, > I get this (bizarre and confusing) error every single time I try to back > up a Unix socket. I don't even want to back up these sockets, or > understand what sense it would make, since they are created by and tied to > a running application, and restoring them without the application would > not be possible or useful. So I don't understand why rdiff-backup doesn't > silently ignore them. I end up having to exclude them from my backups, one > by one, to shut up the error.
i`m not sure if backup up a socket makes sense at all, but you could be right with this. > That's strange, I can't see how rsync could create or copy a unix socket > (minus its controlling process) either. it does, since i can see the socket in my rsync target-directory: srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql daemon 0 Apr 28 01:43 mysql.sock > Is it possible that on that day (April 29th) an rsync was running while > rdiff-backup was running at the same time? Perhaps if the previous > rdiff-backup took a long time, and another rsync (for the next day) > started while the previous backup was still running? no, impossible, because rdiff-backup always is started directly _after_ the rsync. but after further investigation, i now see a corellation: i restarted mysql. this re-creates the socket and thus changes the timestamp - and this is what makes rdiff-backup report the error: zcat error_log.2006-05-13T18\:28\:37+02\:00.data.gz SpecialFileError var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long can you reproduce ? i CC`ed this to ben, because i think this is could be a minor bug of rdiff-backup. reporting an error where really isn`t one is not good at all. regards roland _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192 _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
