Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Trying to backup and restore root-partition...

[Ben Escoto]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:41:41 +0100 Oliver Kaltenecker <address@hidden> wrote:
> Removing directory /dev/pts
> Sending back exception [Errno 16] Device or resource busy: '/dev/pts' 
...
> What's that? I said --exclude-device-files and --exclude /dev and
> nevertheless it tries to rebuild /dev on client.

Ok, the problem is with the --exclude-* options when restoring.  They
seem to be doing exactly what they say on the man page (i.e. acting as
if they excluded files are not in the destination directory, so that
they should be deleted from the target).

This may make some sense when backing up, but is obviously the wrong
thing to do when restoring.  I will look into this later.  I think you
were just testing rdiff-backup out, but if you need your files, I
suggest restoring to an empty directory, and then mv'ing the top level
directories into /.


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Ben Escoto

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