Hi Pete, Your backup command line is backing up your /data directory to [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/backup1/data_rdiff
Therefore, telling rdiff-backup to exclude the /sys directory is unnecessary (it's not part of the /data directory), and probably not what you want. This is what rdiff-backup is complaining about. /data/xpbackup *is* part of the /data dir, so that --exclude makes sense. If all of this sounds right to you, you can safely drop the "--exclude /sys" option. Andrew Pete Dubler wrote: > Recently leaped from RH8 to Fedora5 and my working rdiff-backups no > longer work. I am running from the fedora5 rpm 1.0.4 > > Here is a sample command: > > rdiff-backup --exclude /sys --exclude /data/xpbackup /data/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/backup1/data_rdiff > > yields the following errors: > > Fatal Error: Fatal Error: The file specification '/sys' cannot match > any files in the base directory '/data' Useful file specifications > begin with the base directory or some pattern (such as '**') which > matches the base directory. > > > > Changing to /data instead of /data/ makes no difference. > > --exclude-globbing-filelist myexcludelist with the directories > listed in myexcludelist also yields the same exact error messages? > > The destination server is still running RH 8 and the the version of > rdiff-backup there is: 1.0.4 (the same) > > Any insights would be greatly appreciated as I am flying without a > net without rdiff-backup running correctly. > > Pete > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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 > -- Andrew Ferguson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
