Hi, Joe Steele <j...@madewell.net> writes:
> Derek: > > After running your backup with the exclusion, have you looked in > /mnt/backup/backups/mail/var/lib/imap/ to see if the socket directory > was, in fact, excluded? My guess is that it is not there. Yes, and it is not there.. > My guess is that you first made a backup without the '--exclude > /mnt/snap/var/lib/imap/socket' exclusion, and then you added the > exclusion later. I'm also assuming that you are using v1.2.8. (Newer > v2.0 should not have the problem.) Actually, I think this is probably what happened; I backed up, saw the error, and then realized I didn't need to backup the socket dir so added the exclusion, but then I got the error again and sent the email to this list (not realizing I would get the error that one extra time but no further). And yes, this is 1.2.8. ALL my systems are on 1.2.8. > The first backup of a socket can succeed without error whereas > subsequent backups can generate the warning whenever the socket is > either changed or removed (or in your case, excluded). Details for > why this can occur are given in a bug report of mine from 2009: > > https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=26847 Interesting. > My guess is that the warning will only appear the first time after you > have added the exclusion. After that, the warning should no longer > appear for the excluded socket. But if you wish, you can apply the > patch contained in the bug report to prevent the problem in the > future. The warning occurred on the first (or maybe second) backup; only once I saw the error did I realize it was backing up a socket dir so I excluded it. Regardless, it's not backing up the socket dir now, and I'm not getting the error anymore. So all is good. > As Eric noted, there is no real value in backing up sockets. In fact, > the tar command never backs up sockets. > > --Joe Indeed -- I had no intension to back it up, but it's not like I went through the whole file system to find socket subdirs. One would expect those to be in /run, not /var/lib ;) Thanks! -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant
