Andrew,
You nailed it. Thank you.
(I had put /sys into the exclude list because I had believed another
error message in my logs regarding /sys files was coming from the
rdiff-backup. Turns out that was from another part of my backup routines.)
Again, thanks!
Pete
Andrew Ferguson wrote:
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
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