Hi Robert, * Robert Nichols <rnicholsnos...@comcast.net> [23. Aug. 2012]: > On 08/22/2012 02:05 AM, Gregor Zattler wrote: > There's a bit of a "Catch 22" there. The most straightforward way to find > that the directory is in a different file system is to issue a stat() call > and see if st_dev differs from the value for the current file system. But > that stat() call will fail if the remote host is down. > > Doing the exclude by name should avoid the problem. Simply excluding > /mnt/* might suffice, since basically anything under /mnt should be a > different file system.
Ah. I didn't do this since I wanted the mount points to be included in the backup. Thanks for the explanation, though. If the same problem reoccurs I will follow you advise. Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.- _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
