Try this:

$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/tmp', '/dev'];

/proc, /sys and /dev will produce errors if you don't exclude them...



-- 
Johan Wilfer



2012-08-21 17:19, gshergill skrev:
> 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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