Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff trying to backup specified directory PLUS root directory

[Pete Dubler]

Keith,

Quite certain.  (I've been messing with this for over a week now).  The 
destination directory, server2:/backup1/data, builds and fills 
directories such as /bin, /usr, /etc, /var and fills them with content 
from serverA's root directory.   The directories bin,usr,etc,var and so 
forth do not exist in serverA:/data only under / on serverA.

This really baffles me.

Pete

Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On 11/08/2006 3:06:18 PM +0000
> Pete Dubler <address@hidden> said:
>
>   
> > When I go to run an incremental rdiff-backup, things proceed for many 
> > hours as the system steps through the /data directory, then things get 
> > messy... rdiff-backup starts to then attempt to backup  my root 
> > directory into the destination directory.  So /bin, /etc, /usr, and the 
> > rest are written to the destination directory
> >     
> .
> .
>   
> > rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist 
> > /root/scripts/RDIFFBACKUPEXCLUDE /data address@hidden::/backup1/data
> >     
>
> Are you CERTAIN that the command you quote above is attempting to backup
> your root directory?
>
>