Re: Question around of remote description

[rhkramer]

On Thursday, June 18, 2020 03:49:47 AM Mike Fleetwood wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 00:12, Leland Best <lcbpublic@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As a
> > concrete example, on a recent Linux box '/sys/bus/pci/devices' contains
> > symbolic links named like '000:00:00.0'.  So, when I do a "full system
> > backup" I may well have filenames with colons.
> 
> Just checking that you know even for a full system backup it doesn't
> make sense to backup /proc, /sys and other virtual file systems?

Just to provide a different data point, on my Debian (Wheezy) system, I find 
something over 800 files with "::" in the file name, most in 
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man3/ and two in /var/lib/libxml-sax-
perl/ParserDetails.d/.

Examples:

/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man3/local::lib.3pm.gz
/var/lib/libxml-sax-perl/ParserDetails.d/10-XML::SAX::PurePerl

Aside: I've been trying to send a (new post / thread) to this mail list 
(addressed to rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org) and it has been rejected multiple 
times -- I'm curious to see if this gets to the list.  If it does, I have to 
try to figure out why my new post doesn't get to the list.