Re: [BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers

You need to exclude /proc from your backups. It's a virtual file system maintained by the kernel, and does not need to be backed up.

Here's the excludes we use for Linux hosts:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {

'*' => [

'/dev',

'/proc',

'/tmp_mnt',

'/var/tmp',

'/tmp',

'/net',

'/var/lib/nfs',

'/sys'

]

};

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:19 AM, gshergill <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

Hi Oliver,

Just a random question, but do you back up linux machines?

It keeps failing for me at the point where it tries the file;

/proc/kcore

At this point it see's it's in use and aborts the backup... any way around that which you know?

Thanks again.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

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