On Thursday, June 18, 2020 03:49:47 AM Mike Fleetwood wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 00:12, Leland Best <lcbpub...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As a > > concrete example, on a recent Linux box '/sys/bus/pci/devices' contains > > symbolic links named like '000:00:00.0'. So, when I do a "full system > > backup" I may well have filenames with colons. > > Just checking that you know even for a full system backup it doesn't > make sense to backup /proc, /sys and other virtual file systems?
Just to provide a different data point, on my Debian (Wheezy) system, I find something over 800 files with "::" in the file name, most in /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man3/ and two in /var/lib/libxml-sax- perl/ParserDetails.d/. Examples: /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man3/local::lib.3pm.gz /var/lib/libxml-sax-perl/ParserDetails.d/10-XML::SAX::PurePerl Aside: I've been trying to send a (new post / thread) to this mail list (addressed to rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org) and it has been rejected multiple times -- I'm curious to see if this gets to the list. If it does, I have to try to figure out why my new post doesn't get to the list.
