On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:39:00PM +0100, Martijn Koster wrote:
Chris G wrote:
Using NFS it sets up what would *seem* to be some pipes in /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, however some of these seem to have rather odd characteristics and they confuse rdiff-backup
Those files are not normal disk directories/files/pipes; they are provided by a separate filesystem which is used by nfs internally. So, don't backup/restore that directory.
Ah, I wondered why they acted so oddly, thanks. I don't need to back them up of course but it would be a bit of a pain to deselect them specifically.
A quick way to check for that is to use "df" on the file:
root@yoda:/# df /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt27/info Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rpc_pipefs 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
You might use rdiff-backup's "--exclude-other-filesystems" to avoid surprises like this.
Ah, if "--exclude-other-filesystems" does that then it's what I need, thank you.