Martin, I'm glad that you are starting to get this up and working.
ListError .evolution/tasks/local/system [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/martin/.evolution/tasks/local/system' and involving the backup of files associated with evolution or openoffice. Did these occur because, for example, I had evolution open at the time the backup was taking place?
I don't know why these occur - maybe try a search of the mailing list archive and see if anything turns up there.
I tried to include /etc/fstab originally, using rdiff-backup --include /etc/fstab --include /home/martin /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup but this wouldn't run. I think there is something wrong with how I am using the include arguements?
Right - you have specified some '--include' arguments, but no source directory. You need to have something like:
rdiff-backup [--include dirs --exclude dirs] source-dir destination- dir
That is, --include or --exclude only serve to select or eliminate files that already live in the source directory you specify - and here you haven't specified anything for the source, just the destination.
To include both your home directory and /etc/fstab in the backup, you'll need to specify a source directory that is a parent to both of them, so that would mean going all the way up the directory tree to the root, '/'. So you could do something like:
rdiff-backup --include /etc/fstab --include /home/martin --exclude '**' / /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup
I've added two things to your example - the "--exclude '**'" to exclude everything you haven't explicitly included prior to that, and the '/' to specify the source directory.
I haven't tested this - better try it yourself! But it's quite similar to one of the examples here:
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/examples.html#exclude Good luck, Eric _______________________________________________ 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
