| 2008-07-12 04:09:03 |
Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe |
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Binary package hint: rsnapshot
When rsnapshot calls rsync to backup user directories, an I/O error is encountered because the .gvfs directory is not readable by root. As a result rsync skips deleting of files as it is supposed to, and the result is a backup with deleted files lying around.
I added ".gvfs" to the list of excluded files in rsnapshot for this to work correctly. But this might be needed as a default setting, since it affects any GNOME user. One problem with this is that there needs to be a list of such files with a known special behaviour. Setting "--ignore-errors" in the rsync arguments is also a possibility, but that would be overkill, and might lose files in case of I/O errors when file deletion should indeed have been skipped. |
Binary package hint: rsnapshot
When rsnapshot calls rsync to backup user directories, an I/O error is encountered because the .gvfs directory is not readable by root. As a result rsync skips deleting of files as it is supposed to, and the result is a backup with deleted files lying around.
I added ".gvfs" to the list of excluded files in rsnapshot for this to work correctly. But this might be needed as a default setting, since it affects any GNOME user. One problem with this is that there needs to be a list of such files with a known special behaviour. Setting "--ignore-errors" in the rsync arguments is also a possibility, but that would be overkill, and might lose files in case of I/O errors when file deletion should indeed have been skipped.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. |
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