On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:17:12PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In reading the manual for parameters such as the tar, rsync, etc. share, 
> I see:
> 
> "Alternatively, rather than backup all the file systems as a single 
> share ("/"), it is easier to restore a single file system if you backup 
> each file system separately."
> 
> Can anyone tell me why this is easier?  Can't one select the subset of 
> the backup to restore out of a whole filesystem backup anyhow?
> 
One reason I always specify the --one-file-system argument for rsync is
that prevents me from accidentally backing up an NFS share.  Since I use
BackupPC for all the computers on my LAN, the data in the NFS share gets
backed up when I back up the server that is hosting/exporting the share.

Same thing goes for the occasional fuse share.  In particular, I've
started using encfs and I certainly wouldn't want a copy of my encrypted
data to get backed up unencrypted, just because BackupPC happened to be
running when I had an encrypted volume mounted.

-Rob

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