BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up slash partition

2011-09-03 19:12:53
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up slash partition
From: Arnold Krille <arnold AT arnoldarts DOT de>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 01:11:12 +0200
Hi,

On Sunday 04 September 2011 00:08:38 Holger Parplies wrote:
> Arnold Krille wrote on 2011-09-03 01:32:15 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
Backing up slash partition]:
> > On Saturday 03 September 2011 00:57:48 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > You should make sure you don't cross mount-points though. Otherwise the
> > backup of localhosts '/' will recurse into itself.
> 
> How that?

Backing up / (including /var/lib/backuppc/pc) into 
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost. Unless you exclude that dir by excludes or --
one-filesystem (given that dir is on another partition) this results in a 
recursion.

Have fun,

Arnold

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