Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Empty directory trees not being backed up

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Toni Price <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:02:02 +0000
> I have been a very happy user of rdiff-backup for about a year now. 
> Recently though I noticed that certain directories are not in my backup. 
> I did a 'diff -rq' on some of the source/backup directories and 
> (although I haven't checked extensively) all the missing ones seem to be 
> empty directory trees.

All I can say is I don't see why rdiff-backup wouldn't back up empty
directories.  I've never personally noticed this problem.  I'm not
sure what to do unless you can isolate or reproduce the problem.

Are you sure its a bug?  Maybe it's just some unexpected
--include/--exclude interaction, or a permission problem?

> So I'm guessing this is a problem that came with upgrading to
> 1.0.1. Perhaps it would be better for me to back out to 0.13.6? 
> (Unfortunately the most recent versions are not yet available on
> 64-bit Gentoo.) I tried searching Google & the rdiff-backup-user
> archives but didn't come up with anything. If it would help, I can
> post my rdiff-backup command or any other relevant information.

0.13.6 was the last development release before the stable 1.0.x
series, so 1.0.1 is just 0.13.6 with bugfixes.  So it probably won't
help if you downgrade.


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Ben Escoto

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