I have recently upgraded my servers from Redhat 7 and 8 to Fedora Core 5 and am running rdiff-backup 1.0.4
On serverA I have a large directory, /data, which I am backing up to server2 into /backup1/data The initial rdiff-backup builds the backup just fine, allbeit taking many hours, as expected. When I go to run an incremental rdiff-backup, things proceed for many hours as the system steps through the /data directory, then things get messy... rdiff-backup starts to then attempt to backup my root directory into the destination directory. So /bin, /etc, /usr, and the rest are written to the destination directory. Of course when the attempt to write /proc happen, everything falls apart and the list of error messages is huge. Also, whole directories are not showing up in the backup. (for example, the /data/Word Files/pete/, /data/Word Files/, /data/Word Files/pete, and /data/Word Files/jill are not backed up. (could this have something to do with the /data/**.tmp in the exclude file? The only change since the upgrade is adding the /data/**.tmp line to the exclude file, but even without this line, I get the same results. This all used to work just dandy before my upgrade. It seems I must be missing something essential in the set-up of the exclude file. Any help is greatly appreciated. Authorization keys are set-up correctly to allow [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ssh to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without a password. Here are the details: this command line: rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist /root/scripts/RDIFFBACKUPEXCLUDE /data [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/backup1/data after running for many hours, produces this error list (only a few lines shown): ListError proc/10/environ/exe [Errno 2] No such file or directory ListError proc/10/task/10/environ/exe [Errno 2] No such file or directory ListError proc/1326/environ/exe [Errno 2] No such file or directory ListError proc/1326/task/1326/environ/exe [Errno 2] No such file or directory ListError proc/1348/environ/exe [Errno 2] No such file or directory ... and so forth for many pages... Here is the content of RDIFFBACKUPEXCLUDE: /data/xpbackup /data/**.tmp _______________________________________________ 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
