Comment 0 for bug 247777

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.