Jim Kyle wrote:
> I have backuppc partially working with Xubuntu 8.04.4, but still have one
> critical problem. I'm trying to include only a few directories from one
> client machine, specifically "/etc" which is the machine's configuration,
> and "/home/jim/joanne" which contains zipped-up backups from my wife's
> machine that is not on my LAN. I've set the share to "/" and the include
> list to these two directories only, with "/proc" set in the main exclude
> list, and I'm using tar as the xfer method.
> 
> I just did a full backup for that machine; it dumped files from /bin, most
> of /usr, and much of /var, in addition to /etc, but it reports that /home
> is empty. In fact, that /home directory contains my own (jim) home
> directory plus one each for users backuppc and ftp!
> 
> What's wrong in my configuration for this system? I have the
> --one-file-system option added to the tar command, per the documentation.

Is /home on a separate mounted partition?  If so and you use --one-file-system, 
you have to add it as a separate share.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com




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