> Hi Grant > > The last releases of rdiff-backup were Feb 2009 (1.2.8 and 1.3.3) so these > *should* have included the fix described in the thread you found. But maybe > it wasn't included or maybe it doesn't work - or maybe you have verbosity > set to 5 or higher (though this does not appear from the line you gave). > > Anyway the error message is not significant, I suggest that (as another > poster suggested in the same thread) you just filter the output through a > pipe to remove messages relates to .gvfs thus: > > rdiff-backup --... / /media/usbdisk/repository|grep -v "^ListError.*/\.gvfs" > > Dominic
Hi Dominic, it's too bad rdiff-backup seems to have died. What are people migrating to with the same or similar functionality? - Grant > I'm using this line to back up my files: > > rdiff-backup --exclude '/home/grant/.gvfs' --include '/etc' --include > '/home/grant/backup' --include '/var/lib/portage/world' --include > '/usr/src/linux/.config' --exclude '/*' / /media/usbdisk/repository > > I get this even though the file's path is excluded: > > ListError home/grant/.gvfs [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/grant/.gvfs' > > I found this thread from 2008 which describes the problem and indicates that > the fix was committed to CVS: > > http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/rdiff-backup-trying-to-access-gvfs-even-though-it-is-exc-93726/ > > I'm on rdiff-backup-1.3.3. Is there a good way to avoid this error? > > - Grant _______________________________________________ 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
