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Re: [BackupPC-users] Error Backing up Servers
2012-08-21 12:17:35
Ray Frush <ray.frush AT avagotech DOT com> wrote on 08/21/2012
11:30:22 AM:
> 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'
> ]
> };
Another way of doing this is to add "--one-file-system"
to the rsync parameters. You just need to make sure that you then
back up all of the filesystems you *do* want, then! :)
Tim Massey
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